Crabapple

CRABAPPLE (Pyrus fusca) is a small deciduous tree growing wild in moist habitat along the coast. It bears small, sour-tasting oval fruit from which excellent jelly is made. Crabapples were an important food item for all coastal FIRST NATIONS, who ate the fruit, sometimes mixing it with EULACHON grease, and traded it extensively. The bark was used for medicine by some coastal groups and the wood, being hard and resilient, was used to make implement handles, wedges, digging sticks and pegs for...

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