seiba

Updated: May 20, 2025

Acacias and mimosas, the seiba and the mahagua, with other hard-wood trees innumerable, crowded close to one another; while epiphytes perched on every branch, and creepers bound the whole forest into a compact mass of vegetation, through which no bird could fly. We could catch the strings of convolvulus with our walking-sticks, as the train passed through the jungle.

Edward Burnett Tylor - Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern