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? asakiyume 2006

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 2004

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

1. Lost crops of the incas. 1992

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. P. L. Simmonds

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

Rural Hours 1887

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) Henry David Thoreau 1854

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 1854

(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 Henry David Thoreau 1839

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 2008

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 2008