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'''''Apios americana''''', sometimes called the '''hog peanut''', '''potato bean''', or '''groundnut''' (but not to be confused with other plants sometimes known by the name [[groundnut]]) is a [[perennial plant|perennial]] [[vine]] native to eastern [[North America]], and bears edible [[bean]]s and large edible [[tuber]]s. It grows to 3-4 m long, with pinnate [[leaf|leaves]] 8-15 cm long with 5-7 leaflets. The [[flower]]s are red-brown to purple, produced in dense [[raceme]]s. The [[fruit]] is a [[legume]] (pod) 6-12 cm long.
The tubers are crunchy and nutritious, with a high content of [[starch]] and especially [[protein]]. The plant was one of the most important food plants of pre-[[Europe]]an North America, and is now being developed for [[domestication]].
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Apios tuberosa, Moench. Groundnut. Wild Bean. Fig. 233. Four to 8 ft., climbing over bushes: root bearing strings of edible tubers, 1-2 in. long: lfts. 5-7, ovate-lanceolate: fls fragrant, chocolate-brown, the standard very broad and turned back, the keel long, incurved and scythe-shaped. July, Aug.—Common in low grounds and swamps. The fr. often fails to mature. Prop, by the tubers. 2-4 of which should be planted together at a depth of 3-4 in.; also, by seeds. Grows well in the wild border, in any loose, rich soil. Under these conditions, the plant covers a trellis or other support in a comparatively short time. Dry tubers offered by seedsmen are likely to start slowly. The brown of the fls. is a very unusual color in hardy herbs. Likely to become a weed in rockeries and wild gardens.
Apios tuberosa, Moench. Groundnut. Wild Bean. Four to 8 ft., climbing over bushes: root bearing strings of edible tubers, 1-2 in. long: lfts. 5-7, ovate-lanceolate: fls fragrant, chocolate-brown, the standard very broad and turned back, the keel long, incurved and scythe-shaped. July, Aug.—Common in low grounds and swamps. The fr. often fails to mature. Prop, by the tubers. 2-4 of which should be planted together at a depth of 3-4 in.; also, by seeds. Grows well in the wild border, in any loose, rich soil. Under these conditions, the plant covers a trellis or other support in a comparatively short time. Dry tubers offered by seedsmen are likely to start slowly. The brown of the fls. is a very unusual color in hardy herbs. Likely to become a weed in rockeries and wild gardens.
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==Cultivation==
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== External links ==
==References==
* [http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1990/V1-436.html Domestication of ''Apios americana'']
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* [http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/cgi-bin/arr_html?Apios+americana&CAN=COMIND Plants for a future database]
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
* [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=APAM ''Apios americana'' at the USDA Plants database]
<!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 -->
<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
<!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 -->
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