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Salal is an evergreen shrub found in the Coastal Western Hemlock Zone, growing to between .5 and 2 meters tall. The dark green leaves are leathery and oval-shaped with pointed tips. The bark is gray or reddish. White or light pink bell-shaped flowers grow in long one-sided clusters. The berries are dark blue to black, fuzzy, and very seedy, but sweet to taste. Salal grows in humid coastal forests of the Pacific Northwest, and is especially abundant in forests that have been recently logged. Salal commonly grows in the forest understory, in both shady and sunny areas, often on stumps and rotten logs. Salal is an important plant to First Nations of British Columbia, mainly as a source of food. Berries are best harvested in the late summer. This plant has become part of the floral greens industry, and is harvested as a non-timber forest product in parts of the Pacific Northwest. Salal grows in many places around the University of British Columbia campus, in Pacific Spirit Park. On a walk down to Wreck Beach you are bound to see salal. BibliographyTurner, Nancy. 1995. Food Plants of Coastal First Peoples. Royal British Columbia Museum Handbook. Vancouver: UBC Press.
Welcome to Narrating Landscapes, the ethnobotanical relationship database.Narrating Landscapes is a collection of entries on plants, people, places and times, as well as their uses and meanings. Users may relate entries to one another, adding their own narratives and stories about ecological relationships and experiences. To find pages on topics of your interest, use the search box on the left-hand side. Alternatively, you can browse pages by category. There are entries in Category:Plant, Category:Place, Category:People, Category:Time, Category:Use, Category:Meaning. You can also view relations between entries of the types Category:Political, Category:Economic, Category:Agricultural, Category:Spiritual. Hi everyone in Ethnobotany Class 2008 ! If you click on your name at the top of the page, you can access your own 'user page' -- for example see mine at User:FeliceWyndham or Joanna's at User:Joanna. Please add some info about yourself, a photo if possible, and your ideas for your individual research projects. Everyone feel free to visit and comment on eachother's ideas. Here's what folks are doing for Assignment 4. Have a look at Assignment 3. See the Ethnobotany 2008 GSS Article and edit your writing before it gets published! See your classmates' Research Project Proposals. Here is a sample of a Voucher Specimen Label. You might also use some of this information as you work on Assignment 2. Also, here are some Helpful Links you may want to consult as you create entries for plants. To check out entries for the first assignment, see Assignment 1. Please put a by-line (your name) under your title in each entry. Add your own entries to your 'watchlist' so you know when someone edits your piece. For some background on the design and motivation for this wiki project, see NarratingLandscapes Project.
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