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long-fruited mucuna

Mucuna macrocarpa

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in China.January 43, February 50, March 214, April 329, May 101, June 64, July 56, August 43, September 52, October 64, November 75, December 61.
China1,152
Taiwan Province1,151
Taiwan1,151
Hsinchu County157
Nantou County157
Miaoli County135
Taichung110
Kaohsiung107
Taoyuan99
New Taipei75

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • Medicinal useListed as having medicinal use by a harvested source. This is not medical advice.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
  • Nitrogen fixingDescends from a plant lineage commonly associated with nitrogen-fixing symbioses.Inferred from its group

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderLegumes, Milkworts, and Allies · Fabales
FamilyLegumes · Fabaceae
GenusMucunas · Mucuna

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise long-fruited mucuna with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.