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Amphicarpaea edgeworthii

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Bentham

Propagation

S.

Common Names

• Wild Bean
• Liang xing dou (Pinyin)
• Yabu-mame (Japan)
• Usuba-yabu-mame (Japan)

Geographical Habitats

• Anhui
• Fujian
• Gansu
• Guizhopu
• Hainan
• Hebei
• Heilongjiang
• Henan
• Hubei
• Hunan
• Jiangsu
• Jiangxi
• Jilin
• Liaoning
• Nei Mongol
• Shaanxi
• Shandong
• Shanxi
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Xizang
• Yunnan
• Zhejiang - China
• Himalaya
• Assam - India
• Hokkaido
• Honshu
• Kyushu
• Shikoku - Japan
• Korea
• Nepal
• Russian Far East
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• montane areas
• pasture
• grassland
• disturbed areas
• woodland.

Flowering Times

• Aug-Nov (China)
• Sep-Nov (Japan)

Fruiting Times

• Aug-Nov (China)

Large climbing shrub or slender twining annual herb with pilose stems, 3-foliolate leaves, terminal leaflets to 60mm x 40mm. Axillary racemes of fragrant 17mm white or purplish often cleistogamous flowers, solitary or in pairs, pubescent toothed calyx. 35mm long seed pods x 8mm with hairs on margins

Pods edible

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Mobot
• FOC
• JDH
• FOJ