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an elder tree (see Molina and Karttunen); the leaves have a medicinal value
See an image that represents xometl in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
"The Mexicans call our elder tree xúmetl . . . Crushed and applied to the part [of the body] that hurts, [the leaves] get rid of the pains caused by the French disease and heal cramps and uterine pains in women who have just given birth." (Central Mexico, 1571–1615)
The Mexican Treasury: The Writings of Dr. Francisco Hernández, ed. Simon Varey, transl. Rafael Chabrán, Cynthia L. Chamberlin, and Simon Varey (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), 127.