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Plant parts used as food and their preparation

* Many on this list also used as Medicinal or Narcotic

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Please a few words. This listing by the University of Texas A.M. is very informative. But, if it uses the data gathered from modern American Indians, it can only be called theory when referring to early man. The only facts as to food at the Zueberbueler shelter is from bones and seeds and related plant parts noted. As to their use we have no answers. But the archaic period at the site, has demonstrated it was a time of new ideas. Food had to be number one. As for medicinal use that would be all speculation. ++++ Meloncito: fruit, Eaten ripe, picked when green. **Melotria pendula... Mesquite: sap, roots, stems, flowers. Multiple uses, **Prosopis angustifolia...:............baking & pounding the fruit into flour. Milkvine, Woodson's Shinner : leaves, Boiled and eaten. **Matelea Woodsonii, trans Pecos Milkvine (Milkweed). Ocotillo: flowers, Nectar pressed from flowers. **Fouquieria splendens..................Used today in range fence repair. Oregano: leaves, Used as spice. Sound familiar? **Lippia graveolens... Pinyon Pine, Mexican Pine: nuts, Eaten raw, **Pinus cembroides...:......................or lightly roasted. Pitseed Goosefoot: leaves, Boiled, water changed many **Chenopodium Berlandieri...:.............times, added to corn and beans. Prickly Pear: stems, spines removed, Baked, eaten raw. **Opuntia spp...:..Sold in markets, the South West, name "Nopales", a delicacy. Early man made baby beds of it. Sotol: flowers & fruit, stems (csudex), flower stalk, seeds, **Dasylirion texanum....Baked, pounded and dried or eaten at once. .....The craft of weaving made use of the long slender leaves. Tansy Mustard: leaves, Boiled & eaten. **Descurania pinnata... Texas Mulberry: fruit, Eaten raw, **Morus microphylla..............................leaves, Boiled and eaten. Texas Persimmon: fruit, Eaten raw. **Diospyros texana... Torrey Yucca: seeds & fruits, Eaten raw. Wood stalk used as fire making base. **Yucca Torreyi... +++++++