Pinaceae Pinus ponderosa P.& C. Lawson

Ponderosa Pine

Okanagan-Colville - Drug, Witchcraft Medicine

Use documented by:
Turner, Nancy J., R. Bouchard and Dorothy I.D. Kennedy, 1980, Ethnobotany of the Okanagan-Colville Indians of British Columbia and Washington, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 29

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Scientific name: Pinus ponderosa P.& C. Lawson
USDA symbol: PIPOP (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Ponderosa Pine
Family: Pinaceae
Family (APG): Pinaceae
Native American Tribe: Okanagan-Colville
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Witchcraft Medicine
Notes: Needles spread on the floor of the sweathouse to fight off 'plhax,' witchcraft.

RECRD: 12191 id: 28004

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