[Wikipedia] Native American Uses: The Seri people, a Native American group of northwestern Mexico, call this tree ziipxöl. They grind up the seeds for flour, boil the green pods with meat, and eat the sweet green seeds [2] as well as the flowers. The seeds are also strung to make jewelry. (link added by Mary Ann Machi)
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