Opuntia leptocaulis DC.

Common names: Christmas Cactus
Species details (USDA): USDA OPLE

Documented uses

4 uses documented
Apache, Chiricahua & Mescalero Drug, Narcotic detail... (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, pages 55)
Pima Food, Fruit detail... (Curtin, L. S. M., 1949, By the Prophet of the Earth, Sante Fe. San Vicente Foundation, pages 60)
Pima Food, Fruit detail... (Hrdlicka, Ales, 1908, Physiological and Medical Observations Among the Indians of Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico, SI-BAE Bulletin #34:1-427, pages 261)
Pima, Gila River Food, Fruit detail... (Rea, Amadeo M., 1991, Gila River Pima Dietary Reconstruction, Arid Lands Newsletter 31:3-10, pages 7)

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