Legume
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(l´gym, lgym´), common name for any plant of the family Leguminosae, which is called also the pulse, legume, pea, or bean family. The word is often used loosely in the plural for vegetables in general.
Grow legumes to feed the soil and the family. Bacteria on legumes not only work without pay but pay for the privilege. Inoculated legumes can use nitrogen from the soil air; other crops must depend upon the limited stock of nitrates in the soil.
Fabaceae
Pea Family
(also known as the Legume Family: Leguminosae)
Key Words: "banner, wings, and keel". Pea-like pods, often with pinnate leaves ...
Legumes
Broad beans and peas need lots of water at flowering time in order for pods to set and, again, two weeks after flowering begins. As young plants, avoid too much water as this can encourage leafy growth and reduce the yield.
legume: (1) a fruit characteristic of the families Mimosaceae, Caesalpiniaceae and Fabaceae, formed from one carpel and either dihiscent along both sides, or indehiscent; (2) a crop species in the family Fabaceae; ...
legume or pea family
TOXICITY RATING: High. Even one bean can kill.
ANIMALS AFFECTED: All animals may be affected, although the primary risk is to pets.
Legumes include the popular beans and peas, as well as lentils. While legume plants are generally classified as a straightforward to grow, timing your planting well can mean the difference between…
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Legumes like field peas, alfalfa, clover and soy beans are perfect cover crops. You can also plant grasses such as oats, rye and buckwheat. Planting cover crops is a great way to organically fertilize in the fall for abundant crops the following year.
A legume adapted to a variety of well drained sites. Can tolerate moderately acid soils. Flowers form an oblong or egg-shaped head and are a pinkish-red color.
a tan legume pod
cylindrical and slender
about 1.5" to 2" long
changes from green to tan in July and August
pods open forcefully ...
Peas are legumes and use Rhizobium bacteria that live in nodules along the root system to take up nitrogen from the air and convert it to a useable form.
A type of legume that originated in Asia, but is also grown in the southern United States. It is an oval-shaped bean, ivory in color with a small black spot, referred to as the "eye.
Attractive legume with unusual royal purple flowers that grows 3-18 m in height. Its flowers hang in long clusters. The plant also produces clusters of pods which contain seeds known as mucuna beans.
The pods or legumes, hairy, thick, and leathery, averaging 4 inches long, are shaped like violin sound-holes, and contain four to six seeds.
Family: Legume
Temperature: Will tolerate temperatures in the upper 30F range, but not for a long time.
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This legume requires little fertilizer and care once established, and provides a transitory splash of red when used against a backdrop of dark tree trunks in a natural landscape.
Article " Section of a legume pod, separated from other sections by a constriction or partition. Articulation " A joint. Ascending " Growing or directed in an upward direction, or at least tending to.
Incredibly tough, adaptable trees, their Legume family trademarks of feathery leaves and long seedpods add appeal to a desert landscape.
Annual member of the Legume family. Pods produce high protein nutritious seeds which can be dried into beans. Young beans are eaten fresh as 'snap' beans. Vines are fast growing and often have showy flowers.
It is a member of the legume (Fabaceae) plant family and is capable of fixing nitrogen. The bark is light brown and smooth while young stems are lime green in color, turning light brown and covered with lenticels.
Like other baptisias, Twilite Prairiebluesā"¢ is a member of the legume family and fixes nitrogen in the soil. It is long-lived, tough as nails, and drought resistant, but it's a little slow at the start.
Cercis chinensis Fabaceae (legume)
Chinese Redbud SER-sis chi-NEN-sis
Deciduous shrub, multistemmed, 10 ft (3 m) tall in cultivation (to 50 ft in its native habitat), densely branched, upright habit.
(eds) Advances in Legume Systematics. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Mackay, D. (1997a) Indigofera efoliata Survey 1997. Report to the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. NPWS, Sydney.
Mackay, D. (1997b) Indigofera efoliata Field Survey Strategy.
Blue Wiss is an extremely variable perennial, climbing or trailing to prostrate legume, sometimes with a woody rootstock. Stems are 1-9 ft long, slender, covered with hairs, or hairless, sometimes rooting at the nodes.
Kudzu is a type of legume, a flowering plant that bears its protein-rich seeds in pods and can fix nitrogen from the soil (due to the symbiotic root bacteria rhizobia). Its tubers are edible and the fiber is useful.
Legumes
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Kudzu is a member of the legume family with three-lobed leaves about the size of a dinner plate. It produces purple flowers down in the tangle of foliage that resembles a wisteria and flat, papery pods that are covered with tawny brown hairs.
Fruit: Legume, yellow-green becoming light brown at maturity, 3 to 8 inches long, constricted between seeds, looks like a string of pearls, maturing in early fall, persisting all winter.
The genus name is derived from the Greek "orobos" ("vetch") and "anchein" ("to strangle") referring to the habit of some Orobanche of being parasitic on legumes (a number of legumes are commonly called "vetch").
Astragalus canadensis, Milk Vetch, a legume of dry places
Bidens cernua, Nodding Bur Marigold, also known as Sticktight or Beggers Tick
Brasenia schreberi, Water Shield, a unusual floating leaf plant of shallow waters ...
Mesquite are members of the legume, or Fabaceae family. Like most legumes they restore nitrogen to the soil.
As brooms are of the legume family, they have pea-pods in summer. These are green at first, then dry & harden to brown. On a hot July day the pods will make quite a loud "snap" as they pop open & broadcast their seeds.
Suitability of selected legumes and the effect of nymphal and adult nutrition in the southern green stink bug (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidea). Journal of Econ-Entomology 84(1):103-113. Plant Conservation Alliance, Alien Plant Working Group.
(Clover and trefoil are nitrogen-fixing legumes.) Once the tree starts bearing, it shouldn't grow quite as vigorously and won't need as much nitrogen.
You will sometimes see peas and beans sold with a bacteria inoculant that forms nitrogen converting nodules on the roots of legumes and helps in starting plants.
PARKIA BIGLOBOSA - African Locust
A large family of legumes from tropical Africa, having pods containing edible seeds which are roasted. The fleshy substance surrounding the seeds is also edible.
PARMENTIERA ALATA - Mexican calabash ...
Uses: Beef, breads, cheeses, dressings, eggs, lamb, legumes, marinades, oils, potatoes, poultry, roasted game, seafood, soups, stews, stuffings, and vegetables.
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This somewhat low, sprawling plant, which ranges around the world on marine coasts and inland shores, is a native legume found along much of Michigan's shoreline.
A good cover crop of legumes, plowed under at the proper stage, can add 100 to 150 pounds of nitrogen to the soil per acre, or the equivalent of 10 to 15 pounds of animal manure.
Licorice - Glycyrrhiza glabra (in the Fabaceae or Legume family)
Part used: Root.
Taste/smell: Sweet, nutritious.
This ornamental legume makes a multi-trunked, 8' tall, deciduous shrub adorned with pinnate green leaves. In spring it is topped with terminal branched sprays of bottlebrush-like purple flowers, highlighted the bright orange pollen.
Coronilla varia (Leguminosae) - Also called "Axseed", it is related to the legumes and clovers. Blooms in summer. (Photographed in WI) ...
Fruit: A villous legume to 5cm long.
Habitat: Boarders, waste places, woods.
Range: Introduced into most of the eastern U. S.
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Fruit: typical legume pod, flat 1-3in long, 1/2in wide, reddish or brown, curls when dry
Stems/Trunks: attractive gray shaggy/rough trunk; stems have small curved thorns
Range/Origin: SW US and northern Mexico
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Lablab, a perennial vine in warm climates, is often grown as an annual vine noted primarily for its attractive fruit pods, which are shiny purple. This legume also has many other common names, including Hyacinth Bean and Lablab Bean.
A greedy plant, inhibiting the growth of nearby plants, especially legumes[54]. Other reports say that it is a good companion for wheat[18, 20]. A good bee plant[74]. Plants resent root disturbance and should not be transplanted[200].
3 (12)m, Fern-leaved Wattle makes a tall shrub to small tree with fern-like, feathered leaves and lax terminal racemes of pale yellow to lemon yellow flower buds. Native of SE Queensland, (Stanthorpe) and New South Wales (Legume to Bateman's Bay ...
The fruits are legumes, 3 - 4" long; when ripe they split open and release the brown bean.
The variety of pride of Barbados with red flowers is also called red bird of paradise, while the yellow species is called phoenix bird of paradise.
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Plant 2" apart, 1" deep, in rows 2' apart, or in clumps with plants spaced 3" apart, in well-drained soil. Water well starting with flowering; full sun to light shade. Legume inoculants can increase growth and crop yields ...
About two dozen hairy leaflets are arranged along a midrib to form erect leaves about six inches long. The heavy, alfalfa-like taproot penetrates deep underground. At maturity the silvery-hairy legumes (pods) are about as long as the flowers.
margins and a median groove; wings curved, often fused terminally, often enclosing the keel; keel sickle or boat-shaped; 10 stamens fused by their filaments ( monadelphous), the anthers alternately larger and smaller; fruit a flat, hairy legume ...
Pistils: Ovary superior.
Fruits: Legumes flat, up to 1 1/2 inches long, up to 3/4 inch wide, on a stalk up to 1/2 inch long.
Notes: This plant has sensitive leaves which will fold up when touched.
All leguminous plants have these nodules, and as sweet peas are legumes, these 'nitrogen fixing' nodules are an essential feature to them. SclerotiniaSclerotinia is rare infection in sweet pea plants.
 See also: May, Green, Grass, Pea, Fruits
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