Apios

• “White turtlehead is starting to bloom meanwhile, and also the groundnut (Apios americana) with its amazing chocolatey flowers (and edible tubers, if they weren't impossible to find, and located hard-to-dig soil amid poison ivy--but now I find that the pods are edible too, so maybe I coudl try them instead), and the wild cucumber (not edible).”

  what is not visible from space?

• “Among the legumes discussed, the groundnuts (Apios americanum and Voandzeia [Vigna] subterranea), yam beans (Pachyrrhizus spp.), winged beans”

  1. Lost crops of the incas.

• “These were _Apios tuberosa_, and _Claytonia acutiflora_, _or Virginiana_.”

  The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.

• “Observed, also, several vines of the glycine, Apios tuberosa, though its handsome purple flowers have not yet appeared.”

  Rural Hours

• “Digging one day for fishworms, I discovered the ground-nut (Apios tuberosa) on its string, the potato of the aborigines, a sort of fabulous fruit, which I had begun to doubt if I had ever dug and eaten in childhood, as I had told, and had not dreamed it.”

  Walden~ Chapter 13 (historical)

• “Digging one day for fish-worms I discovered the ground-nut (Apios tuberosa) on its string, the potato of the aborigines, a sort of fabulous fruit, which I had begun to doubt if I had ever dug and eaten in childhood, as I had told, and had not dreamed it.”

  Walden, or Life in the woods

• “(Apios tuberosa) on its string, the potato of the aborigines, a sort of fabulous fruit, which I had begun to doubt if I had ever dug and eaten in childhood, as I had told, and had not dreamed it.”

  Walden

• “linfryeI didn't get a chance to post this from the plein air trip last month -- I recognized it winding its way amongst the cattails and shrubs at the Mill we visited -- It's Apios - or ground nut ---”

  View From the Oak

• “Indian bean, also called Indian potato (_Apios tuberosa_).] scent the air and charm the eye.”

  Lost in the Backwoods

• “Apios oblong-iuberofe-rooted Spurge. ficula, umbella quinquefida: dichotoma, involucellis ovatis, foliis trifida: lanceo - latis, capfulis lanatiS) caule corallino, fioribus luteis. %.”

  Internet Archive: The Universal Botanist and Nurseryman

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