Basketry of Mexico In the south of Veracruz, the Nahua communities of Pajapán and Hueyapan de Ocampo produce elaborate baskets with wicker and the roots of the Philodendrum radiatum and Monstera deliciosa. In the center of the state, mestizo groups create various products such as the palm petates in Tigrillos and shrimp traps in Jalcomulco located in the center of Veracruz on the eastern side of the Cofre de Perote. It is surrounded by semi deciduous rainforest with over 800 species of plants, as well a fruit orchards and fields with sugar cane and other crops. Its basketry is mostly linked to the
Monstera punctulata Monstera punctulata Monstera punctulata is a species of flowering plant from Araceae family that can be found in southern part of Mexico, and Central America. The species is tall. Juvenile have a flattened stem, while adult stem is brown in colour and is . It is also tuberculate and subterete and have long internodes. The species petiole is either smooth or tuberculate, and can also be densely flecked with white spots which are long. They are also vaginate to the geniculum with its deciduous sheath wings, which sometimes are fibrous at the base of the petiole. It geniculum is long