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olcuahuitl.

Headword: 
olcuahuitl.
Principal English Translation: 

a rubber tree; a description appears in the Florentine Codex, Book 11, stating that the tree exudes rubber when the bark is cut and it has many medicinal values (described therein).
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. 115v. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/115v . Accessed 12 November 2025.

Orthographic Variants: 
olquavitl
themes: 
Health, Sickness, Wellness, Medicine
Plants, Trees, Flora
Rubber
See also: 
olli.
cuahuitl.