Salicaceae Populus tremuloides Michx.

Quaking Aspen

Navajo, Ramah - Food, Starvation Food

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 22

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Scientific name: Populus tremuloides Michx.
USDA symbol: POTR5 (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Quaking Aspen
Family: Salicaceae
Family (APG): Salicaceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo, Ramah
Use category: Food
Use sub-category: Starvation Food
Notes: Inner bark eaten raw as an emergency ration.

RECRD: 10434 id: 29637

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