Kidney bean
कामन बीनபொது அவரைఆనపచిక్కుడు
Phaseolus vulgaris L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 2.0 m
- wide
- —
Fabaceae
Formerly Phaseolus aborigineus, Phaseolus albus, Phaseolus asparagioides, Phaseolus butiraceus, and 51 more
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
- Scrambling annualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to NW. Venezuela and N. ArgentinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 2.0 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellow, red, pinkRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 四季豆, 绿豆衣, 菜豆
- Chinese (Taiwan)
- 四季豆, 敏豆, 菜豆
- Dutch
- Boon
- Latvian
- pupiņas
- Asturian
- frexolera
- Czech
- fazol obecný
- Welsh
- ffeuen Ffrengig
- Finnish
- tarhapapu
- Slovenian
- navadni fižol
- Simplified Chinese
- 云藊豆, 四季豆, 菜豆
- Hindi
- कामन बीन, कॉमन बीन, फ़लियां
- Tamil
- பொது அவரை, சாதாரண அவரை
Where this comes from
- 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
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Phaseolus vulgaris (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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