Cactaceae Opuntia whipplei Engelm. & Bigelow

Whipple Cholla

Zuni - Food, Porridge

Use documented by:
Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1915, Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #30, page 69

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Scientific name: Opuntia whipplei Engelm. & Bigelow
USDA symbol: OPWH (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Whipple Cholla
Family: Cactaceae
Family (APG): Cactaceae
Native American Tribe: Zuni
Use category: Food
Use sub-category: Porridge
Notes: Dried fruit ground into a flour, mixed with parched corn meal and made into a mush.

RECRD: 32869 id: 24882

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