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Mucuna pruriens is a tropical legume native to Africa and tropical Asia and widely naturalized and cultivated. [2] Its English common names include monkey tamarind, velvet bean, Bengal velvet bean, Florida velvet bean, Mauritius velvet bean, Yokohama velvet bean, cowage, cowitch, lacuna bean, and Lyon bean. [2]
Abutilon theophrasti, also known as velvetleaf, velvet plant, velvetweed and the Chinese jute [2] is an annual plant in the family Malvaceae that is native to southern Asia and it serves as a type species of the genus Abutilon. [3] Its specific epithet, theophrasti, commemorates the ancient Greek botanist-philosopher Theophrastus. [4]
Mucuna gigantea, commonly known as burny bean, burney bean, velvet bean or sea bean is a species of liana from the legume family Fabaceae. Its natural range roughly follows the perimeter of the Indian Ocean and includes Africa, India, Malesia, New Guinea and northern Australia. Many parts of the plant - in particular the new growth, flowers and ...
Velvet bean is a common name for several legumes and may refer to: Mucuna pruriens and its subspecies Mucuna deeringiana; Pseudarthria hookeri
Mucuna is a genus of around 110 accepted species of vines and shrubs of the family Fabaceae: tribe Phaseoleae, typically found in tropical and subtropical forests in the Americas, sub-Saharan Africa, southern, southeastern, and eastern Asia, New Guinea, Australia, and the Pacific Islands.
Neltuma velutina (formerly Prosopis velutina), commonly known as velvet mesquite, is a small to medium-sized tree. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is a legume adapted to a dry, desert climate. Though considered to be a noxious weed in states outside its natural range, [ 4 ] it plays a vital role in the ecology of the Sonoran Desert .
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The word 'bean', for the Old World vegetable, existed in Old English, [3] long before the New World genus Phaseolus was known in Europe. With the Columbian exchange of domestic plants between Europe and the Americas, use of the word was extended to pod-borne seeds of Phaseolus, such as the common bean and the runner bean, and the related genus Vigna.