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Asparagus bean
Sign in to saveAlso known as Yard-long bean, yardlong bean, long-podded cowpea, Chinese long bean, snake bean, long string bean
subspecies of cowpea plant
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderAsparagales
- FamilyAsparagaceae
via GBIF
Key facts
- Species
- Vigna unguiculata ( L. ) Walp.
- Cultivar group
- 'sesquipedalis'
- Cultivar
- Asparagus bean
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- food
- Parent taxon
- Vigna unguiculata
- Image
- Long Bean.JPG
- Has use
- medicinal plant
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- taxon common name
- 长豇豆
- taxon rank
- subspecies
- taxon name
- Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis
- taxon range
- Guangdong
- Commons category
- Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis
- taxon author citation
- L. Verdc.
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Yardlong bean, illustration from the Japanese agricultural encyclopedia Seikei Zusetsu (1804)
The asparagus bean (Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis) is a legume cultivated for its edible green pods containing immature seeds, like the green bean. It is also known as yardlong bean, pea bean, long-podded cowpea, Chinese long bean, snake bean, bodi, borboti, and bora. 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Asparagus bean” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.