Phaseolus vulgaris
About
Phaseolus vulgaris, the common bean (also known as the string bean, field bean, flageolet bean, French bean, garden bean, green bean, haricot bean, pop bean, snap bean, or snap), is a herbaceous annual plant grown worldwide for its edible dry seed (known as just "beans") or unripe fruit (green beans). Raw or undercooked beans contain a toxic protein called phytohaemagglutinin. Its leaf is also occasionally used as a vegetable and the straw as fodder. Its botanical...
- Family
- Fabaceae
How to use it
This versatile herbaceous annual is grown worldwide for food, yielding edible dry seeds and green beans. Beyond human consumption, the plant's leaves are occasionally utilized as a vegetable, and its straw is used as fodder for animals.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org
In the kitchen
The common bean is grown for its edible dry seeds and unripe fruit, known as green beans. Additionally, its leaves are occasionally used as a vegetable. However, caution is required in the kitchen: raw or undercooked beans contain a toxic protein called phytohaemagglutinin.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Phaseolus vulgaris
- Slug
- phaseolus-vulgaris
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Phaseolus
- Species
- vulgaris
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 40
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