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tlatlalayotli.

Headword: 
tlatlalayotli.
Principal English Translation: 

a medicinal plant, said by Anderson and Dibble to creep along the ground like the ayotli (squash or gourd plant); the root is bittersweet like the tolcimatl

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. 149v. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/149v . Accessed 21 November 2025.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Health, Sickness, Wellness, Medicine
See also: 
tlalli.
ayotli.