Apios americana, wild and domesticated

Here’s another one of Bill Blackmon’s Apios selections, #2127. Aside from good production, the tubers are closer together and the runners not as long as most Apios.

The larger, darker-skinned tubers are the “mother” tubers, which were planted spring2020. Those mother tubers keep growing, but not always equally. The one on the right increased size by around 300% while the one on the left gained about 50%. All the smaller tubers dangling from their mother tubers formed during the 2020 growing season.

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