A hyacinth bean doesn’t fall far from the vine, both figuratively and literally. From vine to bean pod, from leaf to flower, the colorful Thomas Jefferson vine – as we call it in Virginia – has a ...

Joyce Muruku fills up cereal tins at her sat within Chaka Open air market in Kieni, Nyeri county. [Mose Sammy, Standard] The lablab bean, scientifically called Lablab purpureus (or Dolichos lablab), ...

Botanical name: Once known as Dolichos lablab; the name now in favor is Lablab purpureus Trivia: A favorite of Thomas Jefferson, hyacinth bean is an heirloom plant also known as Egyptian bean, Indian ...

WHILE studying the possibility of germinating the seed of Striga hermonthica Benth. by means other than the excretions of the roots of gramineous plants it was found that excretions from the roots of ...

- perennial twining vine of Old World tropics having trifoliate leaves and racemes of fragrant purple pea-like flowers followed by maroon pods of edible seeds; grown as an ornamental and as a ...