Hippocastanaceae Aesculus californica (Spach) Nutt.

California Buckeye

Kawaiisu - Food, Bread & Cake

Use documented by:
Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 10

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Scientific name: Aesculus californica (Spach) Nutt.
USDA symbol: AECA (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: California Buckeye
Family: Hippocastanaceae
Family (APG): Sapindaceae
Native American Tribe: Kawaiisu
Use category: Food
Use sub-category: Bread & Cake
Notes: Seeds pounded, leached, boiled into a mush, made into a cake and eaten with meat.

RECRD: 4139 id: 1607

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