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Vigna unguiculata ssp. sesquipedalis

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Linnaeus) Verdcourt

Common Names

• Asparagus Bean
• Yardlong Bean
• Snake Bean
• Sitao
• Bodi Bean
• China Pea
• Dow Gauk
• Tau Kok
• Haricot Asperge
• Haricor Kilomètre (French)
• Fagiolo e Maccarone
• Dolique de Cuba
• Chang jiang dou (Pinyin)
• Spargelbohne (German)
• Fagiolo Asparagio (Italian)
• Judia Espárrago (Spanish)
• Jiang Dou (Chinese)
• Juroku-sasage (Japanese)
• Kacang Panjang (Indonesia
• Malaysia)
• Sitao (Philippines)
• Hamtak (Philippines)
• Kachang Perut Ayam (Singapore)

Geographical Habitats

• S. Asia Uncertain origin S. America

Natural Habitats

• River mouth

Flowering Times

• Jun-Aug

Fruiting Times

• Jun-Aug

Glabrous twiner with whitish or purplish-blue flowers, torulose fruit to 900mm long with hooked beak

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Rubatzky 1997
• Smith 1998
• FOC
• APDC
• Mansfeld
• FOSi
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus