Quick Quiz Q and A on lacquer and patron saints
A reader asks if any American sumac produces lacquer and is told the poison sumac latex Rhus vernix is lacquer like old China. The plant grows in wooded swamps from Texas to Maine. The patron saint of Mexico is the Virgin of Guadalupe, honored as the patron of all Mexico, identified as an Indian Virgin.
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