Cylindropuntia whipplei

Cylindropuntia whipplei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Order:Caryophyllales
Family:Cactaceae
Genus:Cylindropuntia
Species: C. whipplei
Binomial name
Cylindropuntia whipplei
(Engelm. & J.M.Bigelow) F.M.Knuth

Cylindropuntia whipplei (formerly known as Opuntia whipplei, common name Whipple cholla) is a member of the cactus family, Cactaceae.

The Zuni people rub the spines off the fruit and then dry them for winter use. The dried fruit is also ground into a flour, mixed with ground corn meal and made into a mush.[1] Spineless fruits are eaten raw or stewed.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Matilda Coxe Stevenson (1915). Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians. SI-BAE Annual Report #30. p. 69.
  2. ↑ 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.


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