Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Fabales > Fabaceae > Phaseolus > Phaseolus coccineus

Phaseolus coccineus (Scarlet Runner; Scarlet Runner Bean; Runner Bean; Haricot d'Espagne; Haricot a Fleurs Rouges; Frijol Chamborote; Dutch Case-Knife Bean; Cubaces; Cuba; Chilipuca; Chamborote)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Phaseolus coccineus, known as runner bean, scarlet runner bean, or multiflora bean, is a plant in the legume or Fabaceae family. It is grown both as a food plant and an ornamental plant.
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Infraspecies

Phaseolus multiflorus var. multiflorus
Phaseolus multiflorus var. seminenigro

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [1]  Large quantities of the raw mature seed are poisonous; The toxins play a role in protecting the plant from insect predation.
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Bees
Structure [2]  Herb
Height [1]  9.84 feet (3 m)
Width [1]  39 inches (1 m)
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Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Uromyces appendiculatus[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0