Plant Information
Common Name: LABLAB – HYACINTH BEAN
Scientific Name: Lablab purpureus
Alternative Names: Lablab-bean, Egyptian kidney bean, Bataw and Australian pea
Scientific Name: Lablab purpureus
Alternative Names: Lablab-bean, Egyptian kidney bean, Bataw and Australian pea
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R85.00
Description
- Annual
- Lablab or hyacinth bean is a warm-season annual legume that originated from Africa.
- It can grow up to 2m and is a vigorous, twining or trailing legume with purple stems, trifoliate leafs and white, pink, or purple flowers.
- Lablab is drought tolerant once established and capable of extracting soil water from at least 2 metres depth.
- It does not like wet soil conditions, is tolerant of high temperatures and able to grow at low temperatures (down to 3°C) for short periods.
- Lablab is cultivated throughout the tropics for food, as forage for livestock and as an ornamental plant.
- ivestock is strongly attracted to LabLab’s large, succulent leaves which are an excellent source of protein and phosphorus.
Culinary Uses
- Leaves - eaten raw/cooked like spinach.
- Flowers and immature pods - used as a vegetable.
- The root can be boiled or baked for food.
- The seeds are used to make tofu and tempeh.
Parts Used
- The whole plant.
Medicinal Uses. It is said that
- Cooked Hyacinth beans without salt provides 227 calories per 1 cup of 194 grams - it contains B vitamins, 111.13% of iron, 73.56% of copper and 50.27% of Zinc, 159 mg of magnesium, 233 mg of phosphorus, 15.79 g of protein and 78 mg of calcium.
- It is antimicrobial, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, tonic, aphrodisiac, hypocholesterolemic, galactagogue, has antispasmodic properties and is an appetite suppressants.
- Can tonify the spleen and stomach, stop diarrhoea, leucorrhoea with reddish discharge, infantile malnutrition and is anti-cancer.
For Animals. It is said that
- Forage for livestock.
- Excellent source of protein and phosphorus.
- Can be
- used for green manure.
Other Uses
- The distinctive long-lasting pods are suitable for cut stems for the cut flower industry.
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