How could you not love a bean called lablab? Originating in Africa but cultivated in India since Neolithic times, the hyacinth bean (Dolichos lablab) has fed humans and livestock for millenniums. It’s ...

In the world of legumes, lablab beans also known as hyacinth beans or dolichos, stand out as a nutritional powerhouse with a rich history in various cuisines. Beyond their culinary versatility, lablab ...

- perennial twining vine of Old World tropics having trifoliate leaves and racemes of fragrant purple pea-like flowers followed by maroon pods of edible seeds; grown as an ornamental and as a ...

Looking back at new plants I tried this year and how these plants did in my garden, I can mention at least five: the pocketbook plant (Calceolaria sp.), Diamond Delight (Euphorbia hypericifolia), ...

A hyacinth bean doesn’t fall far from the vine, both figuratively and literally. From vine to bean pod, from leaf to flower, the colorful Thomas Jefferson vine – as we call it in Virginia – has a ...

Joyce Muruku fills up cereal tins at her sat within Chaka Open air market in Kieni, Nyeri county. [Mose Sammy, Standard] The lablab bean, scientifically called Lablab purpureus (or Dolichos lablab), ...

The National Garden Bureau has declared 2003 as the "Year of the Bean." Don't laugh: Few plants are easier to grow or are more versatile in the garden and the kitchen. If you're thinking to yourself, ...

WHILE studying the possibility of germinating the seed of Striga hermonthica Benth. by means other than the excretions of the roots of gramineous plants it was found that excretions from the roots of ...