sand food

plant
Also known as: Pholisma sonorae

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Lennooideae

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    occur in southwestern North America: sand food (P. sonorae) and desert Christmas tree (P. arenarium). The succulent underground stems of sand food were used as food by Native Americans in what is now Arizona.

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