Liquidámbar — the Nahua xochiocotzotl that New Spain exported as a perfume and medicine

Hernández's remedies, printed by Ximénez in Mexico in 1615, describe a great tree the Nahua call xochiocotzotl whose incised bark yields the liquor Spaniards named liquidámbar yndiana, and record it packed with tobacco in the smoking canes of the Indies. Acosta in 1590 rates it an esteemed medicinal perfume-resin and says New Spain surpasses all provinces in these gums. Each claim is bound to the page that carries it, with the indigenous origin and the modern identity kept honest.