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huacalxochitl.

Headword: 
huacalxochitl.
Principal English Translation: 

a plant and flower that was used for gifting and making offerings
Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book undefined: The Merchants", fol. 32v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/9/folio/32v/images/0 Accessed 30 August 2025

a medicinal plant for treating angina
Martín de la Cruz, Libellus de medicinalibus indorum herbis; manuscrito azteca de 1552; segun traducción latina de Juan Badiano; versión española con estudios comentarios por diversos autores (Mexico: Fondo de Cultural Económica; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, 1991), 31 [18v.].

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents huacalxochitl in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

In the image of a huacalxochitl in Book 9 of the Florentine Codex (f. 32v), this looks like an anthurium. The DFC metadata says the Spanish name is anturio.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

para curar angina
Martín de la Cruz, Libellus de medicinalibus indorum herbis; manuscrito azteca de 1552; segun traducción latina de Juan Badiano; versión española con estudios comentarios por diversos autores (Mexico: Fondo de Cultural Económica; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, 1991), 31 [18v.].

themes: 
Plants, Trees, Flora