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For North Americans: "groundnut" is what the British call "peanut".
by 1024core 10y ago
For North Americans: "groundnut" is what the British call "peanut".
- laurencerowe 10y agoPeanuts are called peanuts in Britain.
- flavor8 10y agoPeanuts are called peanuts in the US too.
- pvaldes 10y agoBoth are from family Papilionaceae (Oh, my. I really said Apiaceae?) but two different plants. It seems that here you eat the root and in the classical peanut (mani, cacahuete) you eat the seeds. Interesting plant in any case I didn't know it. You need to be careful with this family, is not so directly brutal as the Apiaceae or Solanaceae that are poison maker masters, but can be tricky. Some "edible" wild species are dangerous for the health at long term (Damages in the nervous system). This is also the reason for not having "peas flour". You can't eat it raw and need to cook almost all legumes, poisonous in raw. This could be the reason for the plant being relatively obscure and unknown.
- manarth 10y agoThe article is about Apios americana (groundnut), rather than Arachis hypogaea (peanut). They share the same order and family, but are a different genus. The article comments that "groundnut" is ambiguous, and refers to a variety of different plants (including peanuts): > "The plant was Apios americana, also known as wild bean, Indian potato, potato bean, and, most commonly, groundnut (though other plants, including peanuts, are also called groundnuts)."