Capparaceae Wislizenia refracta ssp. refracta

Spectacle Fruit

Hopi - Food, Unspecified

Use documented by:
Whiting, Alfred F., 1939, Ethnobotany of the Hopi, Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin #15, page 78

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Scientific name: Wislizenia refracta ssp. refracta
USDA symbol: WIRER (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Spectacle Fruit
Family: Capparaceae
Family (APG): Cleomaceae
Native American Tribe: Hopi
Use category: Food
Use sub-category: Unspecified
Notes: Young plants boiled for food.

RECRD: 41465 id: 43565

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