Cactaceae Opuntia engelmannii var. lindheimeri (Engelm.) Parfitt & Pinkava

Texas Pricklypear

Keresan - Food, Unspecified

Use documented by:
White, Leslie A, 1945, Notes on the Ethnobotany of the Keres, Papers of the Michigan Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters 30:557-568, page 560

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Scientific name: Opuntia engelmannii var. lindheimeri (Engelm.) Parfitt & Pinkava
USDA symbol: OPENL (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Texas Pricklypear
Family: Cactaceae
Family (APG): Cactaceae
Native American Tribe: Keresan
Use category: Food
Use sub-category: Unspecified
Notes: Plant, with thorns burned off, roasted in damp sand and eaten with chili.

RECRD: 3091 id: 24638

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