Apios americana

Common card · No. 303980

Apios americana, sometimes called the American groundnut, potato bean, hopniss, Indian potato, hodoimo, America-hodoimo, cinnamon vine, or groundnut (not to be confused with other plants in the subfamily Faboideae sometimes known by that name) is a deciduous or evergreen perennial vine. The sizeable tubers as well as the beans can be cooked and eaten. The former, having the culinary characteristics of a potato with a nuttier flavour, were of historical importance to Native Americans and European colonists.

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