A woody vine native to the Neotropics, but planted more widely as forage and for nitrogen fixation. Photo is of a weed in Copalita Park, southwestern Mexico.
Jeniang, Kedah, Malaysia.Calopogonium mucunoides Desv. Fabaceae. CN: [Malay - Kacang asu], Bejuco culebra, Calapo, Calopo, Calopogonio-indico, Jequirana, Marmelada-de-boi, Mielillo, Wild ground nut. Native of the neotropics; elsewhere cultivated and naturalized. Erosion control, soil improver, forage. Herbs, twining or procumbent, densely hirsute with spreading fulvous hairs. Widely cultivated as ground cover in Malaysian plantations and usually seeds mixed with two other legume species (Pueraria and Centrosema) before sowing. Synonym(s):Calopogonium brachycarpum (Benth.) Benth. ex Hemsl.Calopogonium orthocarpum Urb.Stenolobium brachycarpum Benth.Glycine javanica sensu Backer, Non L.Ref:www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?8636zipcodezoo.com/Plants/C/Calopogonium_mucunoides/www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=600&taxon_id...www.fao.org/ag/AGP/AGPC/doc/Gbase/data/pf000011.htm
Jeniang, Kedah, Malaysia.Young fruit pods. Calopogonium mucunoides Desv. Fabaceae. CN: [Malay - Kacang asu], Bejuco culebra, Calapo, Calopo, Calopogonio-indico, Jequirana, Marmelada-de-boi, Mielillo, Wild ground nut. Native of the neotropics; elsewhere cultivated and naturalized. Erosion control, soil improver, forage. Herbs, twining or procumbent, densely hirsute with spreading fulvous hairs. Widely cultivated as ground cover in Malaysian plantations and usually seeds mixed with two other legume species (Pueraria and Centrosema) before sowing. Synonym(s):Calopogonium brachycarpum (Benth.) Benth. ex Hemsl.Calopogonium orthocarpum Urb.Stenolobium brachycarpum Benth.Glycine javanica sensu Backer, Non L.Ref:www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?8636zipcodezoo.com/Plants/C/Calopogonium_mucunoides/www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=600&taxon_id...www.fao.org/ag/AGP/AGPC/doc/Gbase/data/pf000011.htm
Jeniang, Kedah, Malaysia.Calopogonium mucunoides Desv. Fabaceae. CN: [Malay - Kacang asu], Bejuco culebra, Calapo, Calopo, Calopogonio-indico, Jequirana, Marmelada-de-boi, Mielillo, Wild ground nut. Native of the neotropics; elsewhere cultivated and naturalized. Erosion control, soil improver, forage. Herbs, twining or procumbent, densely hirsute with spreading fulvous hairs. Widely cultivated as ground cover in Malaysian plantations and usually seeds mixed with two other legume species (Pueraria and Centrosema) before sowing. Synonym(s):Calopogonium brachycarpum (Benth.) Benth. ex Hemsl.Calopogonium orthocarpum Urb.Stenolobium brachycarpum Benth.Glycine javanica sensu Backer, Non L.Ref:www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?8636zipcodezoo.com/Plants/C/Calopogonium_mucunoides/www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=600&taxon_id...www.fao.org/ag/AGP/AGPC/doc/Gbase/data/pf000011.htm