Ericaceae Gaultheria shallon Pursh

Salal

Kwakiutl, Southern - Food, Special Food

Use documented by:
Turner, Nancy Chapman and Marcus A. M. Bell, 1973, The Ethnobotany of the Southern Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia, Economic Botany 27:257-310, page 286

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Scientific name: Gaultheria shallon Pursh
USDA symbol: GASH (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Salal
Family: Ericaceae
Family (APG): Ericaceae
Native American Tribe: Kwakiutl, Southern
Use category: Food
Use sub-category: Special Food
Notes: Berries mashed with stink currant berries and eaten by chiefs and their wives.

RECRD: 46989 id: 15639

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