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Apios americana

Index Apios americana

Apios americana, sometimes called the potato bean, hopniss, Indian potato, hodoimo, America-hodoimo, American groundnut,or groundnut (but not to be confused with other plants sometimes known by the name groundnut) is a perennial vine that bears edible beans and large edible tubers. [1]

21 relations: Apios, Apios carnea, Bean, Black River (Hastings County), Conrad Moench, Eudicots, Fabaceae, Fabales, Flowering plant, Friedrich Kasimir Medikus, Genistein, Groundnut, Heme oxygenase, Peltandra virginica, Perennial plant, Plant, Rosids, Staple food, Stolon, Tuber, Vine.

Apios

Apios is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae.

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Apios carnea

Apios carnea is a vine in the bean family found in Asia in a narrow band from the Himalayas of Nepal across Bhutan, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, China, Laos, and Vietnam.

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Bean

A bean is a seed of one of several genera of the flowering plant family Fabaceae, which are used for human or animal food.

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Black River (Hastings County)

The Black River is a river in Hastings County in Central Ontario, Canada.

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Conrad Moench

Conrad Moench (sometimes written Konrad Mönch; 15 August 1744 – 6 January 1805) was a German botanist, professor of botany at Marburg University from 1786 until his death.

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Eudicots

The eudicots, Eudicotidae or eudicotyledons are a clade of flowering plants that had been called tricolpates or non-magnoliid dicots by previous authors.

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Fabaceae

The Fabaceae or Leguminosae, Article 18.5 states: "The following names, of long usage, are treated as validly published:....Leguminosae (nom. alt.: Fabaceae; type: Faba Mill.);...

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Fabales

The Fabales are an order of flowering plants included in the rosid group of the eudicots in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group II classification system.

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Flowering plant

The flowering plants, also known as angiosperms, Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants, with 416 families, approximately 13,164 known genera and c. 295,383 known species.

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Friedrich Kasimir Medikus

Friedrich Kasimir Medikus (or Friedrich Casimir Medicus; 6 January 1738 – 8 July 1808) was a German physician and botanist.

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Genistein

Genistein is an isoflavone that is described as an angiogenesis inhibitor and a phytoestrogen.

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Groundnut

Groundnut may refer to.

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Heme oxygenase

Heme oxygenase or haem oxygenase (HO) is an enzyme that catalyzes the degradation of heme.

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Peltandra virginica

Peltandra virginica is a plant of the Araceae family known by the common names green arrow arum and tuckahoe.

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Perennial plant

A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years.

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Plant

Plants are mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae.

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Rosids

The rosids are members of a large clade (monophyletic group) of flowering plants, containing about 70,000 species, more than a quarter of all angiosperms.

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Staple food

A staple food, or simply a staple, is a food that is eaten routinely and in such quantities that it constitutes a dominant portion of a standard diet for a given people, supplying a large fraction of energy needs and generally forming a significant proportion of the intake of other nutrients as well.

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Stolon

In biology, stolons (from Latin stolō "branch"), also known as runners, are horizontal connections between organisms.

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Tuber

Tubers are enlarged structures in some plant species used as storage organs for nutrients.

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Vine

A vine (Latin vīnea "grapevine", "vineyard", from vīnum "wine") is any plant with a growth habit of trailing or scandent (that is, climbing) stems, lianas or runners.

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American Hog-peanut, American hog-peanut, Apio, Apios tuberosa, Hopniss, Potato bean, Potato-bean.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apios_americana

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