Black Bean
ब्लॅक बीनस्
Castanospermum australe A.Cunn. ex Mudie
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 33 m
- wide
- 12 m
Fabaceae
Formerly Castanocarpus australis, Castanospermum brevivexillum, Castanospermum cunninghamii, Vieillardia grandiflora
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Queensland to NE. New South Wales, VanuatuKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
- Height
- 33 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants For A Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 40–40 m; Plants For A Future 25–25 m
- Spread
- 5.0 m to 20 mRead from Plants For A Future, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Plants For A Future, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, redRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -12.2 °C (USDA zone 8a)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (3)
- Chinese
- 栗豆树
- Chinese (Taiwan)
- 栗豆樹
- Marathi
- ब्लॅक बीनस्
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants For A Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0
- 3D model: Castanospermum australe (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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