uses: 7806
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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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7806 | 686 | 67 | 152 | 35 | 1 | Leaves and stalks boiled and eaten with seal oil. The leaves and stalks were collected before the plants flowered because after flowering commenced, the plant was apparently inedible. But, boiling the plant broke down the poisonous protoanemonin that it contained, rendering it edible. | Ager, Thomas A. and Lynn Price Ager, 1980, Ethnobotany of The Eskimos of Nelson Island, Alaska, Arctic Anthropology 27:26-48, page 35 |