Why is it so impossible to find something as basic as what Pacific Madrones were called in any of the dozens of Salishan languages where the damn tree is indigenous.
Finally found it via the glossary section of a txʷəlšucid (twulshootseed aka Puyallup Tribal language) program website after much variations on searches and also a Lummi Language Vocabulary by a 19th century ethnobotanist: ɡʷuƛ̕əc (and the anglified version: kō-kwéltsh).









