* relating to the origin and historical development of words and their meanings. I love words. I love to read and when I come across a new word I like to study its origin and how it may have evolved over the years. I am left in a constant state of curiosity at how words migrate from one language and one culture into others and … Continue reading The Etymological* Roots of Cilantro
(also called) : chivatitos , chivitos , chivatos, lengua de pájaro (birds tongue), lengüitas, Hierba de San Nicolas, barbas de San Nicolas, berros, excacahue, señorita, barba de chivo, tsikuarini, quelite poblano, xubatoti (Matlatzinca), Rock purslane, Red maids, Fringed Red maids Variously identified as Calandrinia ciliata (Linares etal 2017) (syn Calandrinia caulescens) (Yanovsky 1936) Calandrinia micrantha (Castillo-Juárez etal 2009) called khutash (xutash) by the Chumash peoples … Continue reading Quelite : Chivatitos
I dedicated this Post to my cilantro loving friend (heh heh) NS Continue reading Cilantro (1). Have your genetics failed you?? (2)
Also known as Peperomia maculosa : tequelite, tequelite macho (1), najashuio macho, juksasan, cunsasan grande, oreja de burro “donkey ear” (Coatepec, Altotonga, Coscomatepec.), cuantepeneni (Altotonga), cilantro de monte and cilantro macho (Coatepec, Xico) P.peltilimba : Nacastequilit, tequelite, tequelite hembra (1),Tequelite de panixkaka (Cuetzalan, Zoquiapan, Tuzamapan, Huehuetla and Tlalauquitepec, in the northern highlands of Puebla (Rodríguez & al., 2010) tepoquelite, cilantro de monte, cilantro cimarrón, cilantro … Continue reading Quelite : Tequelite
In my Post Xocoyoli : The Sour Quelite I mention one of my first plant memories involving what we colloquially know as sourgrass. This plant was a variety of Oxalis (Oxalis pes-caprae). This particular plant is indigenous to Southern Africa but has spread around the World. It is considered to be a weed of agricultural crops and the species can be quite difficult to control … Continue reading Quelite Agrio : Other Sour Quelites
Xanthosoma robustum Also called Paxnikak (1), Lok, barbaron, pitzoquilit One variety of tequelite (P.peltilimba) is called panixkaka. Tequelite de panixkaka is found in Cuetzalan, Zoquiapan, Tuzamapan, Huehuetla and Tlalauquitepec, in la sierra norte de Puebla (Rodríguez etal., 2010). See Post Quelite : Tequelite This plant is a “tolerated” quelite when found growing in coffee plantations or the milpa, in that I mean it will be … Continue reading Quelite : Mafafa
As a child one of my first plant memories involves what we called “sour grass”. This is a plant in the Oxalis family (Oxalis pres-carpae) that has four leaf clover like leaves, bright yellow flowers and long juicy stems. The stems (or peduncles) would be chewed like a farmer chews a haystalk as we walked or played. It was often a challenge to see who … Continue reading Xocoyoli : The Sour Quelite
Cosmos caudatus Synonyms Bidens artemisiifolia subsp. caudata (Kunth) Kuntze (1891) Bidens berteriana Spreng. (1826) Bidens carnea Heer (1842) Bidens caudata (Kunth) Sch.Bip. (1856) Cosmea caudata (Kunth) Spreng. (1826) Cosmos caudatus var. caudatus Cosmos caudatus var. exaristatus Sherff. (1964) Common Names Sometimes called “Spanish needles” although this name is typically used for the (closely related) herb Bidens pilosa. By Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata – Own work, … Continue reading Estrella del Mar (Ulam Raja) : Cosmos caudatus
It’s that time of year again. No! Not pumpkin spice season. Dia de Muertos season cabrones (pardon my Galician). This means it is cempoalxóchitl (1) season (2). I have Posted on this herb/flower previously (3). This previous Post discussed the edible and medicinal uses of cempasuchil (and supplies a few recipes too) The word cempoalxóchitl (also cempazúchitl/cempasúchil) comes from the Nahuatl term for the flower … Continue reading Cempasúchil Confusion During Dia de Muertos.
Ixmiquilpan, equivalent to Nahuatl Itzmiquilpan, from itzmīquilitl (purslane/verdolagas) + -pan (locative suffix), from Mezquital Otomi Nts’u̱tk’ani, from tsꞌu̱tkꞌǎni (purslane). Ixmiquilpan is a city and one of the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo. It is located in the central west part of the state of Hidalgo in central-eastern Mexico. The first ethnic group to settle in the Mezquital Valley in Hidalgo state were a group of Otomies … Continue reading Ixmiquilpan : Land of the Obsidian Arrow Quelite
