Speckled Bambara Groundnuts just moments before going from the collective seed packet to the individual soil cells, where dark, moist, warm soil will wake them up to be cracked open and transformed into little green bushy plants that act a lot like Peanuts: yellow flowers once pollinated will send pegs underground to form pods that hold these seeds. Bambaras, which are West African, are close cousins to the Black-Eyed Pea, and very very distant cousins to the Peanut (Brazilian), in that they are both legumes. But their histories are entwined via the Transatlantic Slave Trade due to their similarities. I’ve written about this before, but I’ll repeat that Africans brought the Peanut and the Bambara to North America, and used them similarly and called them the same names. PS 9 DAYS LEFT TO HELP US SAVE THE ROUGHWOOD SEED COLLECTION!! Link here: https://www.generosity.com/community-fundraising/roughwood-seed-collection !!! #bambaragroundnut #bambaras #vignasubterranea #pindars #mpinda #roughwoodseedcollection #vigna #legumes #seedsaving #seedkeeping #saveseeds
