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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
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Within Vinony's link graph, Asparagus bean is referenced by 101 other articles, and connects out to Phaseolus vulgaris, National Center for Biotechnology Information and Vigna unguiculata.
It sits within the topics Asian vegetables, Edible legumes and Fruit vegetables.
Its subject is documented across 34 Wikipedia language editions.
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.