Mucuna pruriens var. utilis (wall. ex Wight) L.h.bailey

Cowitch (en)

Variety

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Characteristics

An annual hermaphrodite deciduous plant.
Life form annual
Growth form
Growth support climber
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination autogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) -
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) 1.5
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

Uses animal food breeding coffee substitute cover crop cover plant environmental use experimental purposes fodder food forage leaf vegetable manure medicinal oil pharmaceutical industry poison
Edible seeds
Therapeutic use Respiration (unspecified), Chill (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 21 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 23
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) 20 - 30
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Mucuna pruriens var. utilis world distribution map, present in Australia, Azerbaijan, Barbados, China, Fiji, Georgia, Guadeloupe, India, Japan, Kenya, Saint Lucia, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Mauritius, Nicaragua, Nepal, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Réunion, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Taiwan, Province of China, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, United States of America, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:509308-1
WFO ID wfo-0000184713
COL ID 5Q7DR
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 634959
Wikipedia (EN)
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Synonyms

Mucuna capitata Mucuna atrocarpa Mucuna martinii Macranthus cochinchinensis Carpopogon niveum Mucuna utilis Mucuna aterrima Carpopogon capitatus Stizolobium utile Mucuna deeringiana Stizolobium aterrimum Mucuna nivea Mucuna pruriens var. utilis Stizolobium pruriens var. hassjoo Mucuna pruriens var. capitata Mucuna pruriens var. nivea Stizolobium deeringianum