Beginning the hunt in earnest in Tucson, we went to visit the Arizona - Sonora Desert Museum in order to familiarize ourselves with the environment and particular «habits» of the chiltepín (
for example, its predilection towards association with
hackberry and mesquite bushes) and to sample from the chiltepín population in the Wild Chile Botanical Area, located in Tumacacori Mountaints, right off of I - 17.