Pueraria phaseoloides

Plant Characteristics
Habit		vine-climber
Lifespan:	⌛	perennial

Cultivation

Features:	✓	edible

Scientific Names
Leguminosae >	Pueraria >	phaseoloides >

Read about Pueraria phaseoloides in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Pueraria phaseololdes, Benth. (Dolichos phaseoloildes, Roxbg.). St. twining, often scarcely woody, clothed with dense spreading brown hairs: stipules small, lanceolate: lfts. membranous, sparingly covered with appressed bristly hairs above, gray and densely matted below; terminal 1ft. roundish, broadly ovate or rhomboidal, entire or shallowly or deeply lobed, 3-6 in. long: fls. clustered on numerous long-peduncled racemes; pedicels very short; bracts and bractlets lanceolate, strongly nerved, more or less persistent; calyx 1/4-3/8in. long, densely clothed with appressed bristly hairs, lowest tooth lanceolate, as long as the tube, others shorter, all setaceous pointed: corolla reddish, twice as lcng as the calyx; standard roundish above, distinctly spurred: pod glabrescent, 3-4 in. long. India, China, Malaya.—Intro, into U. S. in 1911. Suitable as an ornamental in the southern states. P. L. Ricker. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

Roots are edible.

Cultivation

Possible to grow as an annual crop, harvesting roots in the fall.

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