Oleaceae Forestiera pubescens var. pubescens

Stretchberry

Navajo, Ramah - Drug, Ceremonial Medicine

Use documented by:
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 39

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Scientific name: Forestiera pubescens var. pubescens
USDA symbol: FOPUP (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Stretchberry
Family: Oleaceae
Family (APG): Oleaceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo, Ramah
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Ceremonial Medicine
Notes: Leaves used as a ceremonial emetic.

RECRD: 86272 id: 14807

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