Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Fabales > Fabaceae > Phaseolus > Phaseolus lunatus

Phaseolus lunatus (French Bean; Butter Bean; Lima Bean; Kidney Bean; Green Bean; sieva bean; Haba; Frijolillo; Pois du Cap; Haricot; Runner Bean; Tapirama; String Bean; Sieva Beans; Rangoon Bean; Potu-bonchi; Pois Souche; Pois Doux; Pois De Sept Ans; Pois d'Archery; Pois d'Achery; Pois Amer; Pois Adam; Pois; Pira De Ano; Lima Beans; Haricot de Sieva; Haricot Commun; Haricot Beans; Haricot Bean; Habichuela; Guaracara; Gros Pois; Garden Bean; Frijol De Raton; Frijol De Monte; Frijol De Media Luna; Frijol De Lima; Frijol; Frash Bean; Dwarf Bean; Common Haricot; Common Bean; Civet Bean; Carolina Bean; Caraota De Ano; Butter Beans; Broad Bean; Bonchi-kai; Bonchi)

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Language: French; Hindi; Sinhala

Wikipedia Abstract

Phaseolus lunatus is a legume grown for its edible seeds, or beans.
View Wikipedia Record: Phaseolus lunatus

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [1]  The raw mature seed is poisonous. The toxic principle is hydrocyanic acid and this is destroyed by thoroughly cooking the seed;
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Structure [1]  Vine
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Guanacaste National Park II 85819 Costa Rica  
Mburucuyá National Park II   Corrientes, Argentina  
Rincón de la Vieja National Park II 35068 Costa Rica  

Predators

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
♦ 2Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 3Jorrit 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.
♦ 4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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