Cactaceae Opuntia echinocarpa Engelm. & Bigelow

Staghorn Cholla

Yavapai - Food, Fruit

Use documented by:
Gifford, E. W., 1936, Northeastern and Western Yavapai, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 34:247-345, page 257

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Scientific name: Opuntia echinocarpa Engelm. & Bigelow
USDA symbol: OPEC (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Staghorn Cholla
Family: Cactaceae
Family (APG): Cactaceae
Native American Tribe: Yavapai
Use category: Food
Use sub-category: Fruit
Notes: Fruit boiled and eaten without mashing.

RECRD: 20603 id: 24608

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