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Pueraria bean (lat. Pueraria phaseoloides) - a perennial herb of the genus Pueraria (lat. Pueraria) from the legume family (lat. Fabaceae). Typical leguminous plant with large trifoliate leaves, characteristic purple flowers and pod fruit containing beans. Nutritious forage plant, excellent ground cover crop, has healing powers
What's in your name
The Latin name of the genus "Pueraria" is dedicated to a Swiss botanist named Marc Nicolas Puerari, whose life fell at once for two centuries (from the middle of the XVIII to the middle of the XIX). The botanist devoted his long creative life to the description of earthly vegetables and their distribution on the classification shelves.
The plant received the specific epithet "phaseoloides" ("bean-like") for the appearance of seeds, resembling beans.
Description
Bean pueraria comes from Southeast Asia, from where it has successfully naturalized in the humid tropics of Australia, America and Africa.
The perennial liana-like plant has long roots that go deep into the soil to provide food for its fast-growing aerial parts, as well as moisture during dry periods. At the same time, long and branched roots help the plant to survive in swampy soil. Bean Pueraria stalks in favorable conditions add 30 centimeters daily, growing up to 20 meters in length over the summer. Clinging to the support, the plants rise above the other members of the country flower garden.
Pueraria has large, bean-like leaves, consisting of three simple, whole leaves, oval or triangular in shape. The size of the sheet plates ranges from (2x2) to (20x15) centimeters. In the subtropics, the growing season lasts from early spring to the arrival of winter, and in warm tropics it lasts all year round.
Small flowers typical for plants of the legume family are arranged in scattered pairs on the inflorescence. The color of the flowers is from lilac to purple.
The fruit of the plant is legume pods, which can be straight or slightly curved, ranging in length from 4 to 11 centimeters. The surface of the pods is covered with hairs and becomes black at full maturity. Each pod is filled with 10 to 20 seeds. The seeds are shaped like beans with rounded corners and are colored brown or black.
Usage
Pueraria bean is a very versatile legume that will feed, heal, and decorate a garden or yard.
The healing properties of the plant are used by humans to combat the ailments of the body, as well as to heal the soil, depleted by the cultivation of cultivated plants on it that consume many nutrients, or burned by the flame of a fire. After all, bean-shaped Pueraria enriches the soil with life-giving nitrogen compounds.
Like all plants of the legume family, the aerial parts of the bean pueraria are rich in proteins, and therefore are readily eaten by livestock. Therefore, people sow the fields with this fast-growing plant in order to use the abundance of green mass as food for domestic animals.
The long stems of the plant, directed not in height, but along the surface of the earth, turn the bean-shaped Pueraria into a wonderful ground cover material that protects the near-stem circles of fruit trees from the drying power of the sun's rays. And, directed in height, they will decorate nondescript farm buildings or give a garden gazebo a romantic look.
Growing conditions
Thanks to its long, vital roots, the plant is unpretentious to the composition of the soil and can grow even in wetlands without fear of stagnant water. But, for the good development of the root system, the presence of such chemical elements as calcium, magnesium and phosphorus in the soil is important. The low content of the listed elements sharply reduces the crop yield.
For more abundant flowering, a sunny place is better, but bean-shaped Pueraria can grow in partial shade.
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