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Lost Crops of the Incas Little-Known Plants of the Andes with Promise for Worldwide Cultivation (1989) / Chapter Skim
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Part III: Legumes
Pages 162-163

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... are also legumes, but are handled in the roots and fruits sections of this report (see pages 39 and 2771. All of the Andean legumes described here have shown unusual promise.
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... Thus, there probably were two separate domestications of different lima bean strains; the small type in Central America, the large type in South America. Exactly how lima beans left the Americas is not known, but since the time of Columbus they have become widely distributed, particularly in the tropics.
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