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Canavalia rosea

Botanic Family

Fabaceae

Author

(Swartz) A.P. de Candolle

Propagation

S.

Common Names

• Coastal Jack Bean
• Mackenzie Bean
• Demar Gug (Kuna)
• Hai dao dou (Pinyin)
• Wakore (Fiji)
• Haba de Playa
• Habichuela Playera
• Mato de Playa
• Bay Bean
• Canavalia
• Cây dáu mèo (Vietnam)
• Cây giày dàu (Vietnam)
• No-sor-rae (New Hebrides)
• Horse Bean (Dominica)
• Frijol de Playa (Costa Rica)

Geographical Habitats

• Pan-tropical

Natural Habitats

• Coastal dunes
• forest remnant
• streamside shrubland
• among rocks.

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec. Mar-Jul (Aust) Jun-Jul (China) Early Spring to late Summer All year (Puerto Rico) Feb
• May (New Hebrides)

Fruiting Times

• Apr
• Jun
• Sep
• Dec. Jun-Oct (China) Summer to late Autumn All year (Puerto Rico) Dec (Mexico)

Tall robust glabrous woody perennial twiner or prostrate scrambling herb to 5m with stems slightly pubescent when young. Trifoliate coriaceous leaves to 100mm long, glabrous above with puberulent veins, puberulent beneath, central leaflet to 100mm & nearly as broad. Axillary 300mm long many-flowered pseudo-racemes of scented 25mm pink, mauve-pink or violet-magenta flowers with carmine heart, violet-pink corolla to 36mm, standard 25mm across white at centre, wings & keel shorter, curved keel, glabrous calyx tube to 17mm long slightly villous, petals to 20mm long. Sparsely strigillose pubescent or glabrous beaked fruit to 170mm x 30mm, pod maturing brown.

Poisonous beans

Environmental, food and drink, forage, medicine, toxins

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Jones & Gray 1977
• FOC
• ILDIS
• Neotrop
• FONZ
• FB
• NYBG
• JPS
• FONZ
• APDC
• FOSi
• The Plant List 2
• J.S. Gamble
• VOPR
• FS
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• FV
• FOTA
• JAA
• FOSEUS
• FOPE
• USNH