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Vicia faba - Flowers - Click to enlarge!

Flowers; Braga, Portugal; 3/2009 © Jörn Germer

Vicia faba - Fruit - Click to enlarge!

Fruit; Braga, Portugal; 3/2009 © Jörn Germer

Vicia faba - Upper surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper surface of leaf; Braga, Portugal; 3/2009 © Jörn Germer

Vicia faba - Lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Lower surface of leaf; Braga, Portugal; 3/2009 © Jörn Germer

Vicia faba - Stem section - Click to enlarge!

Stem section; Braga, Portugal; 3/2009 © Jörn Germer

Vicia faba - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Braga, Portugal; 3/2009 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 1029
Date of entry: 22.03.2009
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Broad bean

German: Puffbohne

Mandarin: 蚕豆 (can dou)

Portuguese: Fava

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Fabales (244)

        Family: Fabaceae (244)(family description)

          Genus: Vicia (8)

            Epithet: faba L. (1)

faba => latin for broad bean Vicia faba

Characteristics

Climate: sub-tropical, tropical

Habit: herb

Flower colour: white

External links

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