xoconozlte

[Carlos Trenary]

At 12:16 PM 7/1/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Does anyone know what type of food (plant? herb?)
>this is?
>Thanks
>Alicia Gignoux
>alpha at selway.umt.edu


Maximo Martinez reports three different plants know as xoconoztle:

1) Lemaireocereus stellatus (Pfeiffer) Britt et. Rose,- Cactaceae

2) Pereskiopsis Blakeana G. Ortega,- Cactaceae

3) Pereskiopsis Porteri (Barns.) Britt et Rose,- Cactaceae

Number three is reported as edible.





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