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Some winged bean varieties do not produce tuberous roots. [1] The winged bean is a tropical plant, and will only flower when the day length is shorter than 12 hours, although some varieties have been reported to be day-length neutral. [1] [5] All varieties of winged bean grow on a vine and must grow over a support. Some examples of support ...
It is also known as: yardlong bean, pea bean, long-podded cowpea, Chinese long bean, snake bean, [2] bodi, and bora. [3] Despite the common name of "yardlong", the pods are actually only about half a yard long, so the subspecies name sesquipedalis (one-and-a-half-foot-long; 1.5 feet (0.50 yd)) is a more accurate approximation.
Asparagus pea is a common name for several plants and may refer to: Tetragonolobus purpureus aka Winged Pea; Psophocarpus tetragonolobus aka Winged Bean;
The seed pods are four-sided, four-winged, and about 10 centimetres (3.9 in) long. The peas rattle inside, giving this plant its common name of Rattlebush. Inside the pods, the seeds are separated by transverse partitions.
Psophocarpus is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae.It includes nine species of climbing herbs or subshrubs native to tropical Africa. Typical habitats include seasonally-dry tropical forest and forest margins, moist wooded grassland and grassland, thicket, swamp, and secondary vegetation. [1]
The system of nomenclature in which the scientific name of a species (and not of a taxon at any other rank) is a combination of two names, the first name being the generic name. The second name is referred to botanically as the specific epithet. Note that the two names together (not just the second name) constitute the species name. bipinnate
Leucoptera psophocarpella, the winged-bean blotch miner, is a moth in the Lyonetiidae family that is endemic to Papua New Guinea. The wingspan is about 4 millimetres (0.16 in). The larvae feed on Psophocarpus tetragonolobus .
The generic name Phaseolus was introduced by Linnaeus in 1753, [7] from the Latin phaseolus, a diminutive of phasēlus, in turn borrowed from Greek φάσηλος / phasēlos of unknown origin. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The Ancient Greeks probably referred to any bean in a pod as phasēlos , [ 10 ] which at the time, in Europe, were only of Asian origin.