To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Groundnut, apios americana
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 13:23:57 -0500
How far north does it grow?
George (Canada)
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 12:31:45 -0500, "Keith Johnson"
<keithdj@mindspring.com> said:
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> Cornucopia lists 10 cultivars of ground nut and goes further to say that
> the sweet starchy tubers are eaten raw, boiled, fried, roasted, or
> otherwise perpared like patatoes. They can be added to soups, stews, and
> casseroles, or mashed and used in breads. I've eaten them raw and cooked
> and have grown them and harvested wild ones. I'd start with some of the
> named cultivars first if I wanted to grow them. One of my clients has
> them growing in her highbush blueberries, though I'd probably let them
> crawl on something else like ornamentals. The floweres are fragrant and
> pea-like followed by seedpods. The tuber is also a propagation unit. It
> grows wild over most of the eastern US, mostly growing near streams.
>