Solanaceae Lycium pallidum Miers
Pale Wolfberry
Hopi - Food, Starvation Food
Use documented by:
Whiting, Alfred F., 1939, Ethnobotany of the Hopi, Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin #15, page 89
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Lycium pallidum Miers
Scientific name: Lycium pallidum Miers
USDA symbol: LYPAP (
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Common names: Pale Wolfberry
Family: Solanaceae
Family (APG): Solanaceae
Native American Tribe: Hopi
Use category: Food
Use sub-category: Starvation Food
Notes: Berries boiled, ground, mixed with 'potato clay' and eaten during past famines.
RECRD: 41497 id: 21432