Cactaceae Opuntia echinocarpa Engelm. & Bigelow

Staghorn Cholla

Papago - Food, Vegetable

Use documented by:
Castetter, Edward F. and Ruth M. Underhill, 1935, Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest II. The Ethnobiology of the Papago Indians, University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(3):1-84, page 14

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Scientific name: Opuntia echinocarpa Engelm. & Bigelow
USDA symbol: OPEC (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Staghorn Cholla
Family: Cactaceae
Family (APG): Cactaceae
Native American Tribe: Papago
Use category: Food
Use sub-category: Vegetable
Notes: Buds eaten as greens in May.

RECRD: 43462 id: 24607

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