The Everything Guide to Foraging: Identifying, Harvesting, and Cooking Nature's Wild Fruits and Vegetables by Vickie Shufer

Author:Vickie Shufer [Shufer, Vickie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781440512766
Amazon: 1440512760
Publisher: Adams Media
Published: 2011-06-18T04:00:00+00:00

Groundnuts

Groundnuts are not nuts; rather they are members of the pea family. Their name comes from the nut-like tubers that grow underground. The plant is a bean-like vine with compound leaves that grows as a climbing vine into trees and shrubs. If there are no trees to climb, it tends to sprawl over and around the grasses and other herbaceous plants. The time to locate them is mid-summer when they develop clusters of maroon-colored blossoms. Even though it’s a perennial, the leaves die back in the fall. Look for the old vines and follow them to the ground. The tubers are just beneath the surface and grow in long strings. They can be dug in the fall and into the winter, as long as the ground is not frozen. According to Dr. James Duke, groundnut tubers contain three times as much protein as potatoes.

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