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Mammillaria dioica K. Brandeg.
Strawberry Cactus
USDA MADI3
Diegueno Food, Fruit
Small fruits eaten raw.
Hedges, Ken, 1986, Santa Ysabel Ethnobotany, San Diego Museum of Man Ethnic Technology Notes, No. 20, page 25
Mammillaria grahamii Engelm.
Graham's Nipple Cactus
USDA MAGRG4
Apache, Chiricahua & Mescalero Food, Dried Food
Dried fruit cooked and eaten.
Castetter, Edward F. and M. E. Opler, 1936, Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest III. The Ethnobiology of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache, University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(5):1-63, page 41
Mammillaria grahamii Engelm.
Graham's Nipple Cactus
USDA MAGRG4
Apache, Chiricahua & Mescalero Food, Fruit
Raw fruit used for food.
Castetter, Edward F. and M. E. Opler, 1936, Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest III. The Ethnobiology of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache, University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(5):1-63, page 41
Mammillaria grahamii Engelm.
Graham's Nipple Cactus
USDA MAGRG4
Apache, Chiricahua & Mescalero Food, Fruit
Raw fruit used for food.
Castetter, Edward F. and M. E. Opler, 1936, Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest III. The Ethnobiology of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache, University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(5):1-63, page 41
Mammillaria grahamii Engelm.
Graham's Nipple Cactus
USDA MAGRG4
Apache, San Carlos Food, Fruit
Fruits eaten for food.
Hrdlicka, Ales, 1908, Physiological and Medical Observations Among the Indians of Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico, SI-BAE Bulletin #34:1-427, page 257
Mammillaria grahamii var. grahamii
Graham's Nipple Cactus
USDA MAGRG4
Pima Drug, Ear Medicine
Plant boiled and placed warm in the ear for earaches and suppurating ears.
Curtin, L. S. M., 1949, By the Prophet of the Earth, Sante Fe. San Vicente Foundation, page 57
Mammillaria grahamii var. grahamii
Graham's Nipple Cactus
USDA MAGRG4
Pima, Gila River Food, Baby Food
Raw pulp eaten primarily by children.
Rea, Amadeo M., 1991, Gila River Pima Dietary Reconstruction, Arid Lands Newsletter 31:3-10, page 7
Mammillaria grahamii var. grahamii
Graham's Nipple Cactus
USDA MAGRG4
Pima, Gila River Food, Snack Food
Pulp eaten, primarily by children, as a snack food.
Rea, Amadeo M., 1991, Gila River Pima Dietary Reconstruction, Arid Lands Newsletter 31:3-10, page 5
Mammillaria mainiae K. Brandeg.
Counterclockwise Nipple Cactus
USDA MAMA6
Apache, Chiricahua & Mescalero Food, Fruit
Raw fruit used for food.
Castetter, Edward F. and M. E. Opler, 1936, Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest III. The Ethnobiology of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache, University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(5):1-63, page 41
Mammillaria sp.
Cactus
Apache, White Mountain Food, Unspecified
Flesh used for food.
Reagan, Albert B., 1929, Plants Used by the White Mountain Apache Indians of Arizona, Wisconsin Archeologist 8:143-61., page 158
Mammillaria sp.
Cactus
Gosiute Food, Unspecified
Skinned inner portion of plant used for food.
Chamberlin, Ralph V., 1911, The Ethno-Botany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah, Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association 2(5):331-405., page 374
Mammillaria sp.
Cactus
Navajo Food, Unspecified
Flesh used for food.
Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 64
Mammillaria sp.
Cactus
Tewa Food, Unspecified
Spines burned off and the entire plant eaten raw.
Robbins, W.W., J.P. Harrington and B. Freire-Marreco, 1916, Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians, SI-BAE Bulletin #55, page 62
Mammillaria wrightii Engelm.
Wright's Nipple Cactus
USDA MAWRW2
Navajo, Ramah Food, Unspecified
Stems and ripe fruits used for food.
Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 37
Neomammillaria sp.
Fishhook Cactus
Navajo Food, Unspecified
Spines removed and used for food.
Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 64