Vigna bourneae
Gamble
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Meise Botanic Garden
Meise Botanic Garden
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Meise Botanic Garden
Meise Botanic Garden
What to Eat
Seeds - cooked. The seeds are eaten boiled or roasted. There are 10 - 12 seeds in a seedpod, the seeds being 2 - 3mm long.
Where to Find It
E. Asia - southern India
How to Identify
Vigna bourneae is a climbing plant with twining stems. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food.
How to Grow
Fabaceae
Production
A climbing bean. It is a herb and small branches have rusty hairs. The leaves have 3 leaflets. The leaf stalk is 8 cm long and the leaflets are oval and 8 cm long by 5 cm wide. They have rusty hairs. The pods are 6 cm long and hairy. There are 8-10 seeds. Check Vigna bournaea Gamble. This is an accepted name and Vigna bourneae Gamble is an unresolved name.
Names & Synonyms
Kattu payaru
References (1)
- Arinathan, V., et al, 2007, Wild edibles used by Palliyars of the western Ghats, Tamil Nadu. Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge. 6(1) pp 163-168
