It is one of the common names that give in Mexico to a plant of the family marantaceae. It also receives other common names: flag, blackmail, cheese leaf, peguajó, pehuajó, huajó, platanillo, pojillo, popal, quentó or caporuno. Its scientific name is Thalia geniculata. It lives in wetlands and swampy areas.
BOJILLO thalia geniculata aquatic surface plant that grows in lagoons, especially in tropical wetlands in southeastern Mexico, where it covers large bodies of water : popal, cheese leaf in Veracruz, silver in Tabasco. huasteco tau zimalon. In Colombia : silver or bijao . In irrigation channels and the like it is only considered a weed.
