pochotl (FCbk11f113r)

pochotl (FCbk11f113r)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This iconographic example, featuring a silk cotton tree (pochotl), is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the text near the image in the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows a frontal view of a large pochotl tree (now called the pochote in Mexican Spanish) with small green leaves and a tall gray trunk with white highlights. Dark shadows fill the center of the tree. The tree stands in a landscape setting. This setting, along with the shading that provides a three-dimensionality to the scene, reveal European artistic influence.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

There is one other pochotl in this digital collection (as of November 2025). It is an element from a compound Nahuatl hieroglyph.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

Pochotl

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

pochotl

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Florentine/Florentinus, Codex (FC)
Date of Manuscript: 

1577

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
gray
green (light)
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
shading and parallel line hatching
three-dimensionality
Other Cultural Influences: 
Spanish/European
Keywords: 

árbol, árboles, algodón, seda

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

pocho(tl), the silk-cotton tree, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pochotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

el pochote

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol.113r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/113r/images/0 Accessed 16 October 2025.

Image Source, Rights: 

Images of the digitized Florentine Codex are made available under the following Creative Commons license: CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International). For print-publication quality photos, please contact the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana ([email protected]). The Library of Congress has also published this manuscript, using the images of the World Digital Library copy. “The Library of Congress is unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection. Absent any such restrictions, these materials are free to use and reuse.”

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

pochotl (TR25r)