Vigna kirkii
(Baker) J. B. Gillett
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Meise Botanic Garden
Meise Botanic Garden
What to Eat
Edible parts: Pod ?, Vegetable
The pods are eaten as a vegetable.
Where to Find It
It is a tropical plant.
Africa, East Africa, Uganda, Zambia,
Countries: Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Botswana, Congo (DRC), Central African Republic, Congo (Republic), Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Comoros, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sao Tome & Principe, Eswatini, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe
How to Identify
A bean family climber. The leaves have 3 leaflets. They are oval and 2-10 cm long by 1.5-5.5 cm wide. The flowers are pink or white. The pods are 7-10 cm long by 4-5 mm wide. They are almost straight and a narrow cylinder shape.
Names & Synonyms
Phaseolus kirkii BakerVigna schliebenii Harms
References (1)
- Ojelel, S., et al, 2019, Wild edible plants used by communities in and around selected forest reserves of Teso-Karamoja region, Uganda. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2019) 15:3
