Huexotl, ink and paint on parchment, unknown artist, included in the Florentine Codex by Bernardino de Sahagún, Book 11, folio 144v, Mexico, 1577.
A willow tree, known as huexotl in Nahuatl, grows from a body of curling blue water. Simple leaves alternate along the stem. Willow trees like this one were used to anchor chinampas in the lakebeds of the basin of Mexico.
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence.
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