An Test was Re: SC - Truck Crops

[Decker, Terry D.]

The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is from the New World tropics.  The yams,
which are members of the genus Dioscorea, are from Africa.  The fact that
many Americans call a sweet potato a yam doesn't make it so.

The butter bean is Phaseolus limensis, although the term is used regionally
in New England to refer to type of yellow string bean.  All Phaseolus are of
New World origin.

Bear

> Actually, I think I remember (is that even possible) that the 
> "btata" was 
> indigenous to both South America and certain parts of Africa. 
>  Hey!  Why 
> didn't you let anyone know that Butter beans were the hard 
> one???  I would 
> have gone to the library!!!  I'll guess Scandinavia, though, 
> just for the 
> heck of it.
> 
> Balthazar of Blackmoor