Pinaceae Pinus ponderosa P.& C. Lawson

Ponderosa Pine

Shasta - Food, Bread & Cake

Use documented by:
Holt, Catharine, 1946, Shasta Ethnography, Anthropological Records 3(4):308, page 308

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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: Shasta
Use category: Food
Use sub-category: Bread & Cake
Notes: Nuts dried, powdered, made into small cakes and eaten with a very thin mush made of grass seeds.

RECRD: 7502 id: 28031