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huei huauhquilitl.

Headword: 
huei huauhquilitl.
Principal English Translation: 

This plant is pictured and glossed in the Florentine Codex Book 11, folio 134r., and it is described on folio 135v. It is a small, bitter, wild amaranth. As it matures, it gets even more bitter. It can be cooked in a pot.

Sahagún, Bernardino de, Antonio Valeriano, Alonso Vegerano, Martín Jacobita, Pedro de San Buenaventura, Diego de Grado, Bonifacio Maximiliano, Mateo Severino, et al. Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (Florentine Codex), Ms. Mediceo Palatino 218–20, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MiBACT, 1577. Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter, Alicia Maria Houtrouw, Kevin Terraciano, Jeanette Peterson, Diana Magaloni, and Lisa Sousa, bk. 11, fol. 134r. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/134r . Accessed 18 November 2025.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Plants, Trees, Flora
See also: 
huei.
huauhtli.
quilitl.