Cactaceae Opuntia polyacantha Haw.

Plains Pricklypear

Okanagan-Colville - Food, Soup

Use documented by:
Turner, Nancy J., R. Bouchard and Dorothy I.D. Kennedy, 1980, Ethnobotany of the Okanagan-Colville Indians of British Columbia and Washington, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 92

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Scientific name: Opuntia polyacantha Haw.
USDA symbol: OPPOP (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Plains Pricklypear
Family: Cactaceae
Family (APG): Cactaceae
Native American Tribe: Okanagan-Colville
Use category: Food
Use sub-category: Soup
Notes: Flesh and fat boiled into a soup.

RECRD: 12547 id: 24766

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