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Apios (pear, from the Greek, alluding to the shape of the tubers). Leguminosae. Hardy twining herbs, with tuber-bearing roots, infrequently planted.
Leaves pinnate, of 3-9 mostly ovate-lanceolate scarcely stipellate lfts.: fls. in dense, short racemes, papilionaceous, the standard broad and reflexed, keel incurved and coiled; stamens 9 and 1: pod linear and flat, several-seeded.—Two species in E. N. Amer , and 3 others in Asia.
A. Fórtunei, Maxim., is occasionally cult. in Japan for its small, ovate, edible tubers. A.G. 13:77.—A. Priceàna, Rob., native to Kentucky, may be expected to appear in the trade: root a single large tuber, becoming 6-7 in. diam. : fls. pale rose-color: a vigorous climber, first described in 1898 (Bot. Gaz. 25:451, with illus.).
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==References==
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- 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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