Bite Bean
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Description
- Common Names
- Bite Bean
- Classification
- Herbaceous, Vine, Legume
- This flowering vine boasts pleasant pink five-petalled flowers and broad toothed leaves.
Ecology
- Rarity
- Bite bean is a common plant in all but the driest regions.
- Distribution
- Typically found on borders and margins of woodlands.
- Life Cycle
- Annual
Related Species
Uses
- Cultivation
- Wild
- Culinary
- Bite bean sees no use as a domestic legume due to having a bitter oily taste and low yield of bean pods per plant.
- Medicinal
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- Tonic - The beans can also be dry-roasted and ground to make a brewed tonic.
- Vulnerary - The oil which can be pressed from the seeds is often used to makes a salve for insect stings and bites.
- Other
