Ahuehuete

He also invoked Zapata's name during the campaign, declaring that if the southern caudillo were alive, he would make good use of the old ahuehuete trees in Chapultepec Park, "hanging from their branches so much shamelessness," adding that "the spirit will triumph over the stomach.

Oaxaca is home to a 2,000-year-old ahuehuete, the most ancient tree in the world.

And if you neverwent to Xochimilco you might never conceive of what it looked like: on the banks, the zacate grass grows tall beneath the ahuehuete trees, the oldest in Mexico, and gardens of azaleas, belem, gardenia, begonia, even orquideas, and dogs everywhere watching over it all.