BRACKETTVILLE, TEXAS! BLOG'GIN THE OLD TEXAS BRUSH!

Growing up on the outskirts of Rancho Campo de Gato, these B'Ville specimens were already old friends, although many hundreds of miles to the southeast, down river toward Brownsville, Texas.

Source: The Garden of Chaparral, 1958.
Our name: Wild Olive. One grew behind our garage on our rancho.
Real-deal name: Anacahuita (Cordia boissieri).

"A twelve-foot, wide-spreading tree, sturdy, of the Chaparral habitat, lovely along the wayside.

"The tree blooms the second year, from spring until late fall. It is also seen in New Mexico and southward. It is prized as an ornamental. Its wood is gorund at papermills in Mexico; the dry flowers and fruit are boiled with sugar for a cough syrup; tea is used as a hair dye.

"Spanish: Anacahuita from Nahuatl, amatl, paper + quatitl, tree; Cordia, named for two German botanists and illustrators, E. and V. Cordus; boissieri from bo, wood + sieri, saw."