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Lima bean
Phaseolus lunatus
About
Phaseolus lunatus, commonly known as the lima bean, butter bean, sieva bean, or Madagascar bean, is a legume grown for its edible seeds or beans.
- Family
- Fabaceae
How to use it
This species is cultivated as a crop specifically for its edible seeds, which are harvested and consumed as beans.
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In the kitchen
The seeds, or beans, of this legume are edible and are grown specifically for culinary use.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Phaseolus lunatus
- Slug
- phaseolus-lunatus
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Phaseolus
- Species
- lunatus
- Wikidata QID
- Q1166136
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
Generated sections & citations
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- sprigloom (taxonomy)
- inaturalist (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaseolus lunatus
- wikipedia (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima_bean
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- sprigloom (taxonomy)
- inaturalist (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaseolus lunatus
- wikipedia (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima_bean
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- inaturalist (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaseolus lunatus
- wikipedia (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima_bean
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- inaturalist (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaseolus lunatus
- wikipedia (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima_bean