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Neustanthus phaseoloides (Tropical Kudzu)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Pueraria phaseoloides is a plant species within the pea family (Fabaceae) and its subfamily Faboideae. It is a promising forage crop and cover crop used in the tropics. It is known as puero in Australia and tropical kudzu in most tropical regions. It is closely related to other species in the genus Pueraria and it is crossable with the other species of Pueraria.
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Infraspecies

Neustanthus phaseoloides var. javanicus (Tropical Kudzu)
Neustanthus phaseoloides var. phaseoloides
Neustanthus phaseoloides var. subspicatus (Tropical Kudzu)

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [3]  Perennial
Structure [2]  Vine
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Predators

Clavigralloides acantharis[4]
Crypticerya genistae[5]
Curetis bulis (Bright Sunbeam)[4]
Neptis hylas (Common sailor butterfly)[4]
Riptortus linearis[4]

External References

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Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 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.
♦ 5Ben-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