Lablab

Commonly called the lablab bug or globular stink bug, it's pea-sized and brownish with a wide posterior. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nourishing the Planet found that researchers, nongovernmental organizations and farmers are rediscovering traditional diets and improving the availability and cultural acceptance of nutritious indigenous vegetables -- like moringa and lablab. ❋ Danielle Nierenberg (2011)

Good crops to consider include clover, chicory, Austrian winter peas, brassicas such as rape, lablab, cow peas, wheat, and mixtures from wildlife seed companies. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Embu: njavi, njabi nzavi English: hyacinth bean, bonavist bean, lablab bean Giriama: mpupu Kamba: mbumbu, ngiima, nzavi ❋ Unknown (1999)

Dry farming practicesMuscovy ducks for png villagesFruit cropsFruit vegetablesGrain cropsGround covers and green manuresGreen manure cropsIndustrial cropsThe lablab bean as green manureLeafy vegetablesLeguminous vegetablesThe moringa treeRecipes to learn to eat moringaMiscellaneous vegetablesThe poor man's plowPulses (grain legumes) Rabbit raising in the tropicsLetter from fremont regier, mennonite central committee, Botswana (and earlier in Zaire) Roots and tubersSunnhemp as a green manureThe sweet potatoTropical pasture and feed cropsThe velvet bean as green manure ❋ Unknown (1996)

The best of such crops are legumes, including the vigorous velvet bean and lablab bean. ❋ Unknown (1996)

Dry lablab beans can be substituted for dry beans in most recipes. ❋ Unknown (1996)

We have plenty of lablab beans, pigeon peas and leucaena, including a variety that is hopefully less toxic because it is low in mimosine. ❋ Unknown (1996)

Another difference from the velvet or jack bean is that the lablab bean can be cut off nearly at ground level and will grow again, although with somewhat less vigor. ❋ Unknown (1996)

[Ed: in the sandy soils at ECHO lablab beans get nematodes so badly that it is difficult to keep them alive an entire year]. ❋ Unknown (1996)

The Lablab Bean (Dolichos lablab or Lablab purpureus) is a legume very similar in appearance to the velvet bean, but even faster growing where soils are fairly fertile. ❋ Unknown (1996)

ECHO's seedbank began in 1981 with the top recommendations of tropical plant specialist Dr. Frank Martin-quail grass, amaranths, tropical pumpkins, lablab beans, tropical lettuce, and more. ❋ Unknown (1996)

Where it grows well, the lablab bean has produced a phenomenal 11 kg per square meter (110 T/Ha) of above ground organic matter (wet weight). ❋ Unknown (1996)

The lablab bean requires either a recently cultivated or a sandy soil. ❋ Unknown (1996)

Because animals prefer it to almost anything else, lablab beans cannot be grown where animals run free. ❋ Unknown (1996)

Thus, like the lablab bean, it can be an important source of high protein fodder well into the dry season, when many domestic animals are losing weight for lack of food. ❋ Unknown (1996)

Whereas the velvet bean growth is reduced if it has nothing to climb, plants in thick stands of lablab beans will begin to climb up each other. ❋ Unknown (1996)