DCHP-3

buffalo apple

Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the buffalo pea, Astragalus crassicarpus, a wild pea having yellow blossoms and a pod that is red and fleshy at first, becoming hard and brownish when dry.

Quotations

1887
"There is a product of the North-West called the buffalo apple or buffalo fruit: is that [the wild turnip] it?" "No, that is a sort of plum which grows on the prairie on a vine."