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- 8Wild fruit - Northern Canada
- 7Country food - Northern Canada
- 7Country food - Northern Canada - photographs
- 6Medicinal plants - Northern Canada
- 5Canada, Northwest Territories, Yellowknife
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2015-08-30
Bunchberries are an edible berry found throughout the boreal forest and into the Canadian North
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2015-08-30
Cranberries are a traditional food among Indigenous people in Northern Canada. There are two species of cranberry. This one has an opaque skin and a mealy or pulpy fruit. The other one has a juicy berry with a translucent skin and is also known as lingonberry.
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2015-07-09
Green alder is common across Canada's north. Female (green) and male catkins both visible in the photograph.
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2015-07-09
This ground juniper was beside the board walk that leads up the side of The Rock, to the Pilots' Monument. Many parts of the plant are used in traditional medicine. The berries are eaten as food.
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2015-08-30
This species of Labrador tea has fewer stamens and broader leaves. Labrador tea is used medicinally, by Indigenous people, both as a drink and as a bath preparation.
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.jpg "Painting of gooseberries on the south exterior wall of the Yellowknife Inn")
2015-07-09
This painting on the corrugated metal exterior wall of the Yellowknife Inn in Yellowknife, NWT shows the flower, foliage and green and ripe berries of the green gooseberry plant. Gooseberries are used as both traditional food and traditional medicine by Indigenous people in Canada's North
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2015-07-09
This is one of a series of paintings of berries that are affixed to the exterior south wall of the Yellowknife Inn.
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2014-09-28
A shrub that produces small scarlet stone fruit. The seed is large and flat. The taste is tart and the berries have a strong smell.
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2015-08-30
Wild raspberries are a part of Indigenous peoples' diets in the Northwest Territories. They have also been used in traditional Indigenous healing.