From Sturtevant's Edible Plants Of The World
by E. Lewis Sturtevant
Psophocarpus
tetragonolobus DC.
GOA BEAN
Leguminosae
This plant is grown in India for the sake of its edible seeds and
also for use as a string bean. The pod is six to eight inches long,
half an inch wide, with a leafy kind of fringe running along the length
of its four corners. The pod is cooked whole and, says Firminger, is a
vegetable of little value. Wight calls it a passable vegetable. In the
Mauritius, the plant is called po'is carres and is cultivated for the
seeds. In Burma and the Philippines, the pods are eaten. Pickering says
it is a native of equatorial Africa and says "the kidney beans of the
finest quality," observed by Cada Mosto in Senegal in 1455, belong here.
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