Solanaceae Solanum jamesii Torr.

Wild Potato

Keresan - Food, Starvation Food

Use documented by:
White, Leslie A, 1945, Notes on the Ethnobotany of the Keres, Papers of the Michigan Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters 30:557-568, page 562

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Scientific name: Solanum jamesii Torr.
USDA symbol: SOJA (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Wild Potato
Family: Solanaceae
Family (APG): Solanaceae
Native American Tribe: Keresan
Use category: Food
Use sub-category: Starvation Food
Notes: Raw potatoes mixed with clay or boiled with clay and eaten only in times of extreme scarcity.

RECRD: 3107 id: 38297

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