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OREGON GRAPE Mahonia aquifolium (Pursh) Nutt.

	properly called Hollyleaved Barberry aka Canadian Holly The state flower of Oregon, Hollyleaved Barberry (known locally as Oregon Grape), is on the noxious weed list in 46 US states. Oregon Grape produces bright yellow flower clusters in late winter (March) through to June. The bright glossy foliage resembles holly (prickles and all) and is used as a decoration at Christmastime. The foliage turns bright red in the fall. In spring, the new growth is a bronzy copper color. A native evergreen shrub, growing 3 to 6 feet high, Oregon Grape grows in open woods and shrublands. It is used extensively in landscaping as an ornamental and is known as Mahonia in the nursery business. The dull blue berries grow like grapes and make the most delicious jelly - follow any good recipe for grape jelly and mix it half and half with clear apple juice. This is my all-time favourite jelly! Be sure to wash the berries well to get the bugs out!!! Medicinally, various root preparations of Oregon Grape were used by Native Americans for stomach trouble, hemorrhages, and tuberculosis; as a panacea, a tonic, a gargle, an eye wash, as a treatment for syphilis and to purify blood. Leaves and roots were used in steam baths to treat yellow fever; was used as a poison; and the tips of stems were used to treat stomach aches, roots and bark were used as a yellow dye for wool, baskets, bows and arrows and porcupine quills. Some nations considered the plant poisonous and others used it as food, eating the berries fresh but also mashed it and formed it into cakes and dried it for winter food.

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