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Despite dry conditions, Aridoamerica boasts the greatest diversity of wild and domesticated tepary beans ( " Phaseolus acutifolius " ) and is a possible site of their domestication.
The semi-nomadic Tohono O'odham and other Indians of the Sonora Desert practiced " ak-chin " cultivation of the indigenous tepary bean ( Phaseolus acutifolius ).
""'Phaseolus acutifolius " "', the "'Tepary bean "', is native to the southwestern United States and Mexico and has been grown there by the native peoples since pre-Columbian times.
Five kinds of " Phaseolus " beans were domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples : common beans ( " Phaseolus vulgaris " ) grown from Chile to the northern part of what is now the United States, and lima and sieva beans ( " Phaseolus lunatus " ), as well as the less widely distributed teparies ( " Phaseolus acutifolius " ), scarlet runner beans ( " Phaseolus coccineus " ) and polyanthus beans ( " Phaseolus polyanthus " ) One especially famous use of beans by pre-Columbian people as far north as the Atlantic seaboard is the " Three Sisters " method of companion plant cultivation: