Potato Bean
- Title
- Potato Bean
- Rights
- Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
- Type
- herbarium sheet
- Creator
- Bkejwanong/Walpole Island First Nation
- Date
- 1933-07-11
- Description
- Pressed specimen of Potato Bean (Apios tuberosa) collected along fences on east side of Sturgeon's house. There were several vines, some with five leaflets and some with seven. None were in flower. Collected 7/12/33. Sturgeon knew that they were formerly used for food, but knew nothing of the preparation (from Volney Jones' 1933 field notes, Field no. 5).
- Place
- Canada
- Walpole Island, Ontario
- Alternative Title
- Apios tuberosa
- Identifier
- UMMAA 13969 (tubers and leaves)
- Provenance
- Volney Jones
- Item sets
- Anishinaabe Plants UMMAA
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