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World History

Wicked Blue

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4. My pleasure. I'm fascinated by where plants originated.

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Thu Jan 22, 2026, 08:40 PM

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I have a book, Green Immigrants by Claire Shaver Haughton (1978, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc.) that has a great deal of information on the subject. It might still be in some libraries.

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The legumes known in the Old World were broad beans, chickpeas, Wicked Blue Thursday #1

Thanks for all of that! GreatGazoo Thursday #2

Thanks to both of you, Gazoo and Blue, for the informative exchange. WestMichRad Thursday #3

My pleasure. I'm fascinated by where plants originated. Wicked Blue Thursday #4

I have reached out to some tribe member linguists and asked GreatGazoo Thursday #5

Hope you can get enough to write your own book someday, assuming they still make books by then. :) eppur_se_muova Friday #6