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Wild Cucumber

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Wild Cucumber (Manroot, Sierra Manroot)
Paregien Ranch
March 20, 2009

Native uses: seeds roasted and eaten for kidney trouble; oil extracted from seeds for falling hair; crushed root mixed with sugar for saddle sores on horses; crushed pieces of green roots put in streams to stupify fish. The fleshy root of this climbing perennial may weigh as much as 100 pounds.

Posted by John Dofflemyer on March 20, 2009 7:17 AM |

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