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  • From: Douglas Woodard <dwoodard@becon.org>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] [OFF-TOPIC ARTICLE] Stalking the Wild Groundnut: In Case of a Famine...A Plant that Grows Everywhere
  • Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:09:30 -0400

It's not a fruit, but it is exploration.
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Stalking the Wild Groundnut
See
<http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/458>

In case of a famine...a plant that grows everywhere
by Tamara Dean
Photo by Jason Houston
Published in the November/December 2007 issue of Orion magazine
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In Ontario I know of two nuseries that offer plants,
Pterophylla and Acorus Restoration, see
http://www.carolinian.org/FactSheets_NativeStock.htm

Elsewhere, see
http://www.nanps.org/sourceslist.aspx
and inquire of your local native plant association
http://www.nanps.org/associations.aspx

I have a little experience with wild type Apios americana in Malcolmson
Eco-Park here in St. Catharines in the Niagara Peninsula. It seems to
like medium to wet soils (no drought), wind shelter and maybe less than
full all-day sun. It is most rampant in a north edge where the
neighbours pile leaves in the fall. Squirrels and deer will dig up the
tubers and eat them. Although it grows up shrubs and small trees it
doesn't seem to do them much harm. The vines being herbaceous die in the
fall and don't constrict the stems. Probably the nitrogen helps.

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada




  • [NAFEX] [OFF-TOPIC ARTICLE] Stalking the Wild Groundnut: In Case of a Famine...A Plant that Grows Everywhere, Douglas Woodard, 10/25/2007

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