Could it be that tacamahac (Populus) and hackmatack (Larix) got confused (the words, not the trees)?. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: HACKMATACK.] Reference
Common names for P. balsamifera include balsam poplar, hackmatack, and tacamahac; common names for L. laricina include American larch, tamarack, hackmatack, and black larch. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: HACKMATACK.] Reference
The camp had been placed under a beautiful tree -- the tacamahac, or balsam poplar. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Adventure Tales] Reference
Nor is the balsam-poplar, or tacamahac, less delightfully fragrant, especially while the gummy buds are just beginning to unfold; this is an elegant growing tree, where it has room to expand into boughs. From Wordnik.com. [The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America] Reference
“tacamahac,” a species of poplar which grows to a great height and shoots forth yellowish leaves which turn green in the autumn. From Wordnik.com. [The Fur Country] Reference
(precise Amerind language unknown); piassava, piasaba, pias-saba, piasawa (Tupí); and tacamahac, tacamahaca, tacama-hack, takamake (Nahuatl). From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3] Reference
According to his account, the island produced palms, cocoa-nut trees, various almond trees, wild coffee, the ebony tree, the tacamahac, as well as numerous resinous or gum trees, the banana, sugar-cane, yams, aniseed, and lastly a plant called "Binao," which is used by the natives as bread. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century] Reference
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