Botanical Garden

Today I went on a field trip (the botanical garden). There the docent's name was Lisa and our tour today was about native plants. We went to that section and the Ohlone (native American tribe) native to S.F. used the plants to survive. The first question was for food survival (they did not have Safeways or Luckys). Their staple food was acorn (China's staple food is rice) and they had many others. Did you know the California Poppy's roots taste bad but soothe toothaches and Buckeyes (a nut) paralyze fish to catch them? The tribes somehow knew and used those resources. They mostly used Tule that was a strong plant to build stuff (the bad thing is that you can get splinters and I got one in my skin and I had to use a needle to get it out). Did you know they even used shampoo? The men used it to get the human smell off them so the animals won't smell them when they hunt. The shampoo is made by flower (we used some and it was good). That was mostly the end of our tour!