name: Climbing Bean

flavor_db_name_variants: climbing bean

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Climbing bean

id: 201

name_scientific: Vigna umbellata

description: Vigna umbellata (Thunb. ) Ohwi and Ohashi, previously Phaseolus calcaratus, is a warm-season annual vine legume with yellow flowers and small edible beans. It is commonly called ricebean or rice bean. To date, it is little known, little researched and little exploited. It is regarded as a minor food and fodder crop and is often grown as intercrop or mixed crop with maize (Zea mays), sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) or cowpea (V. unguiculata), as well as a sole crop in the uplands, on a very limited area. Like the other Asiatic Vigna species, ricebean is a fairly short-lived warm-season annual. Grown mainly as a dried pulse, it is also important as a fodder, a green manure and a vegetable. Ricebean is most widely grown as an intercrop, particularly of maize, throughout Indo-China and extending into southern China, India, Nepal and Bangladesh. In the past it was widely grown as lowland crop on residual soil water after the harvest of long-season rice, but it has been displaced to a great extent where shorter duration rice varieties are grown. Ricebean grows well on a range of soils. It establishes rapidly and has the potential to produce large amounts of nutritious animal fodder and high quality grain. The English language name is a literal translation of the Chinese language name.

itis_id: 506275

wikipedia_id: Vigna umbellata

picture_file_name: 201.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 88658

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:29:16.000Z

legacy_id: 213

food_group: Pulses

food_subgroup: Beans

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:25.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:04:19.000Z

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updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 87088

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00201