Mucuna macrocarpa
Wallich
Large fruited mucuna
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Flower, Leaves
The flowers are eaten as a potherb, and the leaves are also edible.
Where to Find It
It is a tropical plant. It grows in forests on dry sandy land between 800-3,000 m above sea level. In Yunnan.
Asia, Bhutan, China, Himalayas, India, Indochina, Japan, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, SE Asia, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam,
How to Identify
A large woody vine. The young stems have fine hairs. The leaves are 25-33 cm long. They have leaflets that are oval and 10-19 cm long by 5-10 cm wide. The flowering stalks arise from old stems and are 5-23 cm long. The flowers are greenish white with purple wings. The pods are 26-48 cm long by 3-5 cm wide and 7-10 mm thick. There are 6-15 seeds that are disk shaped and 2-3 cm long by 2-3 cm wide and 5-10 mm thick.
How to Grow
Plants can be grown from seed.
Names & Synonyms
Baldangra, Gua la lu, Ke tuo, Ne qi a yi, Pangra, Pauk-net
References (3)
- Anderson, E. F., 1993, Plants and people of the Golden Triangle. Dioscorides Press. p 216
- Cao, Y., et al, 2020, Ethnobotanical study on wild edible plants used by three trans-boundary ethnic groups in Jiangcheng County, Pu’er, Southwest China. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2020) 16:66
- Sutjaritjai, N., et al, 2019, Traditional Uses of Leguminosae among the Karen in Thailand. Plants 2019, 8, 600 p 7
