Asturian beans. Phaseolus vulgaris is the best known species of the genus Phaseolus in the Fabaceae family. It is an annual native species of Mesoamerica and South America, and its numerous varieties are cultivated throughout the world for consumption, both of its green pods and its fresh or dried seeds. It is an annual herbaceous plant, erect or climbing, of pubescent or glabrescent stem when adult. The stipules of the tri-pinnate leaves are lanceolate. The leaflets are broadly ovate or ovate-rhomboidal. The flowers are arranged in clusters usually axillary, shorter than the leaves. The bractolas, persistent, are usually of equal length or somewhat superior to the calyx that is cupuliform, with 5 sepal soldiers and with the emerald bidentate upper lip and the inferior tridentate. The corolla may be white, yellow, violet or red.
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