permaculture

["John Wages" <jwages@earthlink.net>]

This website has some information on A. americana: 
http://www.wildflowers-and-weeds.com/The_Forager/hopniss.htm

There is another edible Apios that is a threatened species:  A. priceana
(Price's potato bean vine).  Whereas A. americana produces many tubers per
plant, priceana produces only one, but it is large.  There is a stand of
priceana not far from where I live
(http://nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/mississippi/preserves/art
1297.html), but I have not yet been there.  Apparently, the immature seed
pods are edible like green beans.  More info. on A. priceana: 
http://www.centerforplantconservation.org/ASP/CPC_ViewProfile.asp?CPCNum=149

Oikos Tree Crops has improved cultivars of A. americana that were developed
in Louisiana:  www.oikostreecrops.com.  

John Wages
Tupelo, MS


> [Original Message]
> From: Lisa in Oregon <lisamaciver8@yahoo.com>
> To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: 2/11/2006 11:51:01 PM
> Subject: [permaculture] Groundnut, apios americana
>
> Is there some reason this doesn't get talked about much, or am I 
> missing some problem with it?  N-fixing and 17% protein!  Is it any
> good?  Seems like I hear from time to time about various lost crops 
> of the incas but not about this lost crop of the native north 
> americans...
>
> Lisa in Ashland Oregon
>
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