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Vigna unguiculata
Vigna unguiculata
- Botanic Family
- Leguminosae
- Author
- (Linnaeus) Walpers
Common Names
- Cowpea
- Horse Gram
- Cherry Bean
- Asparagus Bean
- Bod (Gurung)
- Bori (Nepali)
- Bhuti (Newari)
- Barbati
- Black Eye Pea
- Boeme
- Catjang
- Common Cow Pea
- Frijol de Vaca
- Kulthi
- Pois Inconnu
- Pois liane
- Pois Manger Cochon
- Yard Long Bean
- Black-eye Bean
- Common Cowpea
- Southern Pea
- Crowder Pea
- Frijole
- Coupe
- Lubia
- Niebe
- Kaffir Bean
- Calavances
- Barbati (India)
- Jiang dou (Pinyin)
- Haricot Dolique (French)
- Niébé (French)
- Augenbohne or Kuherbse (German)
- Fagiolo or Fagiolo Dall'occhio (Italian)
- Caupi or Frijol de Vaca or Frijol de Pinta Negi (Spanish)
- Feijoa Frade (Portuguese)
- Lobia or Chauli (Hindi)
- Pu Tong (Chinese)
- Sasage (Japanese)
- Kunde (Swahili)
- Niebe (W. Africa)
- Kacang Bol or Kacang Merah (Malaysia)
- Kacang Tunggak (Indonesia)
- Kachang Bol (Singapore)
- Kachang Perut Ayam (Singapore)
- Bo-cate-pe or Bui-loi Som-pi-nark or Vark-yell or Pe-doung-she or Pe-let-kauk or Pe-lon or Pe-lun or Pe-nga-shan or Pe-sa-u or San-tao Hai or Wagaung-pe (Myanmar)
- Habine
- Faseola à L'occhio Nero (Italy)
- Calavana (Jamaica)
- Dâu trang (Vietnam)
- Dau den (Vietnam)
- Adouggouari (Ethiopia)
- Jerusalem Pea
- Marble Pea
- Bombay Cowpea
- Mei dou (Pinyin)
- Borboti (Bangladesh)
- Karamani
- Thatta Payir
- thatta kaai
- jhudunga
- barboti kolai
- Alasande
- Alasandalu
- Bobbarlu
- Lobhia or Bura (when used as a string bean)
- Chola
- Chowla
- Chawali or Chavali
- Batong or Balatong (Philippines)
- Ayiman (Fon
- Mahi
- Adja
- Cotafon
- Aizo
- Oueme)
- Ewa (Ida
- Tcha
- Tchabaè
- Nagot
- Holly)
- Yangutu (Waama)
- Atchakabo or Guései (Anii)
- Blaa (Boko)
- Suiwurusu (Bariba)
- Titukpindi or Toutoufari (Gourmantché)
- Titu'nti (Otammari)
- Yiman (Cotafon)
- Yiviman (Aizo)
- Sonanfadé (Kotokoli)
- Haricot Dolique or Dolique Mongette or Niébé or Haricot à L'oeil Noir or Pois aux Yeux Noirs or Cornille (French)
- Marble Pea
Geographical Habitats
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Ethiopia
- Gambia
- Guinea
- Mozambique
Natural Habitats
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Perennial climbing or non-climbing glabrous or sub-glabrous annual or perennial twining herb with corky, grooved stems and pendulous fleshy roots. Trifoliolate leaves, glabrous both surfaces, central leaflet to 150mm. Axillary 2-12 flowered pseudo-racemes or umbels with bracts, to 400mm long of 33mm flowers, standards to 30mm long yellowish-white , shorter wings blue to purple, keel white or pale or violet, glabrous or slightly downy calyx to 6mm long, petals 15mm x 20mm, yellow or reddish corolla to 25mm. Glabrous torulose fruit pods to 900mm long x 10mm with recurved beak.
Further References
- Bailey 1976
- Menninger 1970
- Huxley 1992
- Rubatzky 1997
- Manandhar 2002
- FOC
- Mobot
- Neotrop
- Bodkin
- APDC
- Mansfeld
- FOSi
- The Plant List 2
- VOPR
- USNH
- Botanicus
- F Indochine
- FOTA
- Sturtevant 1919
- JDH
- Tanzamin Ara
- USEP
- Traditional Vegetables in Benin