Taxon:
Canavalia gladiata (Jacq.) DC.
Summary
Place of publication:
Prodr. 2:404. 1825
Verified:
12/22/2005
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
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Common names
English
scimitar-bean – sword-bean – French
dolic en sabre – pois sabre – pois sabre rouge – German
Schwertbohne – Portuguese (Brazil)
feijão-de-porco – Spanish
haba de burro – poroto sable – Swedish
svärdböna –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | widely cult. |
4 | Naturalized | | | | | widely natzd. |
6 | Other | | | | | origin paleotropics |
Cultivated
(widely cult.)
Naturalized
(widely natzd.)
Other
(origin paleotropics)
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Environmental | soil improver | green manure | National Academy of Sciences. 1979. Tropical legumes: resources for the future |
Human food | vegetable | | Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds. 1993. Vegetables. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 8:134-136. URL: http://proseanet.org |
Materials | beads | | Smith, R. J. Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource). URL: http://www.botanicalbeads.com/BBB_page_74.html |
Vertebrate poisons | mammals | fully mature seeds | Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds. 1993. Vegetables. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 8:134-136. URL: http://proseanet.org |