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.





Bibliography

Sturtevant, E. Lewis. Sturtevant’s Edible Plants Of The World. 1919, Edited by U. P. Hedrick, New York, Dover Publications, 1972.

Published 6 June 2019 KJ
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