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Vicia faba L. (Syn: Faba bona Medik.; Faba equina Medik.; Faba faba (L.) House; Faba major Desf.; Faba minor Roxb.; Faba sativa Bernh.; Faba vulgaris Moench; Orobus faba Brot.; Vicia esculenta Salisb.; Vicia vulgaris Gray);
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India (I) ; Assam ; Bihar ; Delhi ; Haryana ; Himachal Pradesh ; Jammu-Kashmir; Madhaya Pradesh; Orissa; Punjab; Rajasthan; Tamil Nadu ; Uttar Pradesh; West Bengal & other countries as per ILDIS;
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request for flower id:
please help me to identify this plant Place-ambala cantt Month-Jan Habitat-garden Height-about 1.5 feet This is Vicia faba L. or broad bean.
   Vicia faba from PUSA Campus, Delhi-GSNOV05/05 : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3) Vicia faba, photographed from PUSA campus, New Delhi is it a regularly grown species or is PUSA Delhi campus doing research? would have loved to have seen the pods and the beans from it. its a functional food. helps some. must be cautiously eaten. kills some and endangers many.
Since biblical times Favism is a dreaded disorder Phytjagorean vegetarianism occluded it from diet Jewish doctrine forbids it esp in holiday feasts. Its still a functional food, containing Levodopa, useful for Parkinson’s patients. is that why its being studied in india now?
Location: Kathmandu, Nepal
Date: 29 January 2013
Altitude: 4500 ft.
Nepali Name : बकुला Bakulaa
Broad Bean, Fava Bean or Faba Bean did you open these to take pictures of the seeds? Yes, Jewish food llaws (Kosher) prohibit it, just for that reason Not this time, … Although, I have done it earlier many times before cooking. Yesterday, clicked it in Sabji Mandi just for the purpose of compiling Indian names for this plant. I do not like it’s taste, so did not purchase. This variety is not list in either The Plant List Ver. 1.1, Catalogue of Life as well as POWO except as Faba major Desf. (syn. of Vicia faba L.) Broad bean is mostly written as Vicia faba only. I was going through some paper where var. major and var. minor was mentioned on the basis of seed shape and size.
It was my mistake not to check at The Plant List or PoWO for the correctness.
It may be considered only as Vicia faba cultivar.
I think looks different from images at Cyamopsis tetragonoloba Lower leaves should help. Flowers look like Vicia faba. . References:
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