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Tilia americana L. var. americana

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Uses	Part	Preparation	Effect	Notes
Vegetable	Trunk or branch			Carving, Doll making
	Flower	Dried, tea		Used like coffee
	Fruit			Substitute for chocolate
	Fruit
	Bark	Boiled & twisted/split		From young tree or branches
	Inner bark	Soaked in water to make more pliable		Bindings, fishing nets, lacing, mats, snares, baskets
	Sap or juice			Sap next to bark scraped and stored
	Root			Smoked
	Inner bark			Bait for trapping beaver,
	Trunk or branch			Wood items, buttons, fishing decoys, sleds, tree taps
	Bud	Raw or cooked
	Fruit	Cooked		When young and green
Medicine	Bark	Boil, add cornmeal ooze as poultice	Skin/sores/bleeding	Boils
	Flower	Dried	Digestion
	Inner bark		Digestion
	Leaf		Skin/sores/bleeding	Burns and scalds
	Trunk or branch		Respiration

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