Episode Details

Vallarta Pine :: Pinus vallartensis

Bad at Goodbyes :: Episode 088

On today’s show we learn about the Vallarta Pine, a critically endangered conifer native to the state of Jalisco, in western Mexico, near Puerto Vallarta a few miles inland from Banderas Bay on the Pacific Ocean. Its scientific name is Pinus vallartensis and it was first described in 2017.

For more information about Vallarta Pine conservation and to donate to support their protection, please see the Vallarta Botanical Gardens at https://www.vbgardens.org/.

• (00:05) Intro
• (02:05) Species Information
• (20:11) Citations
• (22:04) Music
• (28:29) Pledge

Research for today’s show was compiled from:

• Coder, K. D. (2008). Leaf senescence & abscission (Tree Leaf Color Series WSFNR08-33). Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia. – http://hdl.handle.net/10724/36467
• Cox, T. (2019, October 3). Conifer trees of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. American Conifer Society. – https://www2.conifersociety.org/blogpost/2082607/489898/Conifer-Trees-of-Puerto-Vallarta-Mexico
• Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund. (2004). Madrean pine-oak woodlands. In R. A. Mittermeier, P. Robles Gil, M. Hoffmann, J. Pilgrim, T. Brooks, C. G. Mittermeier, J. Lamoreux, & G. A. B. da Fonseca, Hotspots revisited: Earth's biologically wealthiest and most threatened terrestrial ecoregions. Conservation International. – https://www.cepf.net/our-work/biodiversity-hotspots/Madrean-pine-oak-woodlands
• de La Rosa, J. A. P., & Gernandt, D. S. (2017). Pinus vallartensis (Pinaceae), a new species from western Jalisco, Mexico. Phytotaxa, 331(2), 233–242. – https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.331.2.7
• Earle, C. J. (2026, January 11). Pinus vallartensis. The Gymnosperm Database. – https://www.conifers.org/pi/Pinus_vallartensis.php
• Farjon, Aljos, and Brian T. Styles. 1997. Pinus (Pinaceae). Flora Neotropica, Monograph 75. New York: The New York Botanical Garden. – https://www.jstor.org/stable/4393881
• Gossett, D. R. (2021). Leaf abscission. In Research Starters: Anatomy and Physiology. EBSCOhost. – https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/anatomy-and-physiology/leaf-abscission
• iNaturalist – south of Puerto Vallarta
• Perez de la Rosa, J., Gernandt, D. & Thomas, P. 2024. Pinus vallartensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024: e.T124561040A124561048. – https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-2.RLTS.T124561040A12