… two trees embracing one another: an amate and a sabino … The intertwined roots of the two tree lovers flowed over the ground towards the stream, ecstatically seeking it – UTV, 320.

A pair of trees, thus entwined, were to be found in Cuernavaca's Chapultepec park, according to Esta O. de Davila, Paradise in Mexico, 77; they no longer seem to be there, but a magnificent amate, its roots breaking the rocks as it seeks moisture, is still to be seen.