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Apios carnea
About
Apios carnea is a vine in the Fabaceae family found in Asia in a narrow band from the Himalayas of Nepal across Bhutan, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, China, Laos, and Vietnam. Petioles are 5–8 cm long; compound leave typically have 5 leaflets. The flowers are found in long peduncled flexuous secund racemes 15–23 cm long. The reddish, flesh-colored flowers are showy and have potential as an ornamental. Pods are 10–13 cm long and contain 12 to 16 seeds.
- Family
- Fabaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Apios carnea
- Slug
- apios-carnea
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Apios
- Species
- carnea
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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