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In his X account, the president said that he has never “understood why the city is not full of these Maquilishuat trees.”
“It is our national tree, a native species; Furthermore, it is beautiful and fits perfectly into the ecosystem,” Nayib Bukele stressed and showed a photograph of one of these trees found in the Divino Salvador del Mundo square.
In that sense, he asked the Minister of Public Works, Romeo Rodríguez Herrera, to proceed to plant these trees in the capital.
The Maquilishuat blooms from January to May, while its fruits appear between February and May. At this time of year, the flowering of trees with clusters in pink tones that correspond to the Maquilishuat, the national tree of El Salvador, is observed in the Salvadoran landscape.
In the central and western areas they call it Maquilishuat, while in the east they recognize it as: Maculis, Maquiligua, Maculigua or Macuilis. Nahuatl-speaking ancestors named it Makwiliswat, Makwil=five and Ishuat=leaf, alluding to its leaves that are divided into five leaflets.
The scientific name is Tabebuia rosea (Bertol.) DC., it belongs to the Bignoniaceae family and can be found natively from southern Mexico to Venezuela and on the coast of Ecuador, where it grows in an altitudinal range from 0 to 1100 meters above sea level.
In our country, it occupies the position of national tree thanks to the executive decree issued by the Ministry of Agriculture on June 26, 1939 and published in the Official Gazette on July 5 of that year, volume 127, no. 144, which designates together with the balm and marks June 22 as Arbor Day.
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