PINUS DELICIOUS (PINYON PINE)

Written By Alex Crowson
 
A pinyon on the edge of a mountain, Completely Arbortrary

This week we chat about the Colorado pinyon pine (Pinus edulis) and its multitude of uses and fascinations. A group of pines, the pinyons, are an interesting evolutionary clade that tend to interbreed where their populations overlap. The seeds of the pinyon, though, are what has led to them being of utmost important to our culinary pantheons.

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Cover art by Jillian Barthold
Music by Aves and The Mini-Vandals
Episode cover photo by Adam Baker

Additional Reading:

The pinyon pine (Pinus edulis)
More on the taxonomy and facts
Morphological and niche divergence of pinyon pines
Colorado pinyon pine facts
An old collection of notes on indigenous uses

 
Alex Crowson
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