Fava bean
बकलाதட்டை மொச்சைఅనపకాయ
Vicia faba L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.2 m
- wide
- —
Fabaceae
Also called Broad bean, Horse bean, Broad Bean
Formerly Faba equina, Faba major, Faba minor, Faba sativa, and 5 more
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.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- As a cultigen from E. Medit.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 61 cm to 1.8 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, purple, brownRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- a'hua'x, bizaa-roo-xtilla, da-ku
- Spanish
- Haba
- Lithuanian
- Paprastoji pupa
- Portuguese
- Fava, Faveira
- French
- Fève
- Czech
- bob obecný
- Estonian
- põlduba
- Norwegian Bokmål
- bønnevikke
- Dutch
- tuinboon
- Finnish
- härkäpapu
- Chinese
- 蠶豆
- German
- Saubohne
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, 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, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- 3D model: Vicia faba (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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