Rosaceae Prunus pensylvanica L. f.

Pin Cherry

Ojibwa - Food, Fruit

Use documented by:
Smith, Huron H., 1932, Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of Milwaukee 4:327-525, page 409

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Scientific name: Prunus pensylvanica L. f.
USDA symbol: PRPEP (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Pin Cherry
Family: Rosaceae
Family (APG): Rosaceae
Native American Tribe: Ojibwa
Use category: Food
Use sub-category: Fruit
Notes: Berries used for food. The pin cherry was abundant around the Flambeau Reservation and the Ojibwe were fond of it. It was an education in itself to see a group of Ojibwe women working on mats with a supply of fruit laden branches beside them. With one hand they would start a stream of berries into the mouth and the stream of cherry stones ejected from the other corner of the mouth seemed ceaseless. The Pillager Ojibwe also had the tree and used it is the same manner.

RECRD: 84 id: 30506

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