Jardín Etnobotánico de Oaxaca

We were walking to Santo Domingo church and walked by this beautiful old building that turned out to be the Etno-Botanical Gardens of Oaxaca.  There is an entrance fee, but apparently today is national botanical gardens day in Mexico.  Surprisingly, we had not known this. So we got in free if we went on a guided tour in Spanish.  The woman giving the tour took forever to talk about the plant/plants at each stop.  She did, however, talk relatively slowly so that this was a Spanish lesson as well.

This green stone is typical of the quartz-based volcanic stone used to build much of the city.