Pinaceae Pinus lambertiana Dougl.
Sugar Pine
Shasta - Food, Bread & Cake
Use documented by:
Holt, Catharine, 1946, Shasta Ethnography, Anthropological Records 3(4):308, page 308
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Pinus lambertiana Dougl.
Scientific name: Pinus lambertiana Dougl.
USDA symbol: PILA (
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Common names: Sugar Pine
Family: Pinaceae
Family (APG): Pinaceae
Native American Tribe: Shasta
Use category: Food
Use sub-category: Bread & Cake
Notes: Nuts dried, powdered, made into small cakes and eaten with a very thin mush made of grass seeds.
RECRD: 7503 id: 27780