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
Environmental
Human food
vegetable (fide Pl Res SEAs 8:134. 1993) – Materials
beads (fide Bot Beads World; as http://www.botanicalbeads.com/BBB_page_74.html,) – Vertebrate poisons
mammals (fully mature seeds fide Pl Res SEAs 8:134. 1993) –