Agavaceae Yucca baccata Torr.

Banana Yucca

Navajo - Food, Porridge

Use documented by:
Castetter, Edward F., 1935, Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest I. Uncultivated Native Plants Used as Sources of Food, University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(1):1-44, page 54

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Scientific name: Yucca baccata Torr.
USDA symbol: YUBAB (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Banana Yucca
Family: Agavaceae
Family (APG): Asparagaceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo
Use category: Food
Use sub-category: Porridge
Notes: Ripe fruits dried, ground, kneaded into small cakes and boiled with cornmeal into a mush.

RECRD: 41338 id: 43882

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