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Manzanita

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Manzanita
Paregien Ranch
March 20, 2009

Native uses: berries eaten raw, cooked, or ground into a meal for porridge; crushed fruits and leaves for relief of bronchitis; tea made of the berries as a wash for poison oak; leaves dried, crushed and mixed with tobacco for a smoke.

Posted by John Dofflemyer on March 20, 2009 6:01 AM |

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