Cylindropuntia whipplei

Cylindropuntia whipplei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
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

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

External links

Cylindropuntia whipplei photo gallery at Cholla Web

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[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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