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Tylosema esculentum
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Tylosema esculentum, with common names gemsbok bean and marama bean or morama bean, is a long-lived perennial legume native to arid areas of southern Africa. Stems grow at least 3 metres (9.8 ft), in a prostrate or trailing form, with forked tendrils that facilitate climbing. A raceme up to 25 millimetres (1 in) long, containing many yellow-orange flowers, ultimately produces an ovate to circular pod, with large brownish-black seeds.
- Family
- Fabaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Tylosema esculentum
- Slug
- tylosema-esculentum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Tylosema
- Species
- esculentum
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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