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title: Huexotl Willow Tree
author: Unknown Artist
source: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/21235/huexotl-willow-tree/
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license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0)
updated: 2025-10-26
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# Huexotl Willow Tree

_Authored by Unknown Artist_

## Image File

[![Huexotl Willow Tree](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/21235.png)](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/21235.png)

## Image Caption

Huexotl, ink and paint on parchment, unknown artist, included in the *[Florentine Codex](https://www.worldhistory.org/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](https://www.worldhistory.org/Chinampas/)* in the lakebeds of the basin of Mexico.

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence.

## Cite This Work

### APA
Artist, U. (2025, October 26). Huexotl Willow Tree. *World History Encyclopedia*. <https://www.worldhistory.org/image/21235/huexotl-willow-tree/>
### Chicago
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### MLA
Artist, Unknown. "Huexotl Willow Tree." *World History Encyclopedia*, 26 Oct 2025, <https://www.worldhistory.org/image/21235/huexotl-willow-tree/>.

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