Hyacinth bean
ಅವರೆஅவரைഅമര
Lablab purpureus (L.) Sweet
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 5.3 m
- wide
- 1.4 m
Fabaceae
Also called Hyacinthbean
Formerly Dolichos purpureus
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Scrambling annual or perennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Cape Verde, Trop. & S. Africa, Madagascar, IndiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 3.0 m to 7.6 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 91 cm to 1.8 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, pink, purpleRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Frijol jacinto
- Chinese
- 鵲豆, 白扁豆, 扁豆
- French
- Pois de Senteur
- Russian
- Лобия
- Czech
- lablab purpurový
- Slovak
- lablab obyčajný
- Arabic
- لبلب شائع, لبلب أرجواني
- Chinese (China)
- 扁豆, 白扁豆
- root
- pwa boukousou, pwa senm, pulavazcipluh
- Japanese
- フジマメ, 藤豆, 千石豆
- Lithuanian
- Egiptinė lobija
- Dutch
- Hyacintboon
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Lablab purpureus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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