Apios americana (MISC-LEGUMES)

Available until they start to sprout (in fridge). Price is for Apios sent alone, but combined with bean seeds, $2 to cover the extra shipping. These were selected for tuber size in South (?) Carolina and sent to me from the Iowa State germplasm collection. (I have two numbered varieties but only dug up this one last year). They rarely flower here but produced gorgeous pink clusters the day before very late Nov. first frost in 2021, and before frost in 2022, but not in 2023. The tubers (this variety is shown in photo) are tasty and keep very well refrigerated in wet dirt. I grew them in a dry sunny location without a trellis, and also grew another variety (available next year) by the overflowing rainbarrels in part shade (plants shown in the photos). The vines reach 10' and should be trellised. A local variety growis luxuriantly along the stream at the U Michigan Botanic Garden flowered in August. AKA hopniss, American groundnut