*’flowering kudzu’is a fast-growing ‘legume’ with a ‘grape-like odor’*
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“AKA” –>
“LEGUME”
/ˈlɛɡjuːm/
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/ˌləˈɡjuːm/
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*a legume is a ‘plant’ (or its ‘fruit’ / ‘seed’) in the family ‘fabaceae’ (or ‘leguminosae’)*
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(‘legumes’ are grown agriculturally, primarily for…)
their ‘grain seed’
(called pulse)
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(…for livestock forage + ‘silage’…)
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(…and as soil-enhancing green manure…)
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(well-known legumes include…)
‘alfalfa’
‘clover’
‘peas’
‘beans’
‘chickpeas’
‘lentils’
‘lupin bean’
‘mesquite’
‘carob’
‘soybeans’
‘peanuts’
‘tamarind’
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(“fabaceae” is the most common family found in tropical rainforests and in dry forests in the ‘Americas’ and ‘Africa’)
(a legume fruit is a simple dry fruit that develops from a simple carpel and usually dehisces (opens along a seam) on two sides)
(a common name for this type of fruit is a pod, although the term “pod” is also applied to a number of other fruit types, such as that of vanilla (a capsule) and of the radish (a ‘silique’))
(‘legumes’ are notable in that most of them have symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria in structures called ‘root nodules’)
(for that reason, they play a key role in ‘crop rotation’)
(the fabaceae, Leguminosae or Papilionaceae, commonly known as the legume, pea, or bean family, are a large and economically important family of ‘flowering plants’)
(it includes trees, shrubs, and perennial or annual herbaceous plants, which are easily recognized by their fruit (legume) and their compound, stipulated leaves)
(the family is widely distributed, and is the third-largest land plant family in terms of number of species, behind only the ‘orchidaceae’ + ‘asteraceae’, with about 751 genera and some 19,000 known species)
(the five largest of the genera are Astragalus (over 3,000 species), Acacia (over 1000 species), Indigofera (around 700 species), Crotalaria (around 700 species) and Mimosa (around 500 species), which constitute about a quarter of all legume species)
(the ca. 19,000 known legume species amount to about 7% of flowering plant species)
(‘Fabaceae’ is the most common family found in tropical rainforests and in dry forests in the Americas and Africa)
(recent molecular and morphological evidence supports the fact that the Fabaceae is a single monophyletic family)
(this point of view has been supported not only by the degree of interrelation shown by different groups within the family compared with that found among the Leguminosae and their closest relations, but also by all the recent phylogenetic studies based on DNA sequences)
(these studies confirm that the Fabaceae are a monophyletic group that is closely related to the Polygalaceae, Surianaceae and Quillajaceae families and that they belong to the order ‘Fabales’)
(along with the cereals, some fruits and tropical roots a number of Leguminosae have been a staple human food for millennia and their use is closely related to human evolution)
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(a number are important agricultural and food plants, including
Glycine max (soybean),
Phaseolus (beans),
Pisum sativum (pea)
the small spherical seed or the seed-pod of the pod fruit pisum sativum
(then a can of sweet peas + can of cranberry juice)
Cicer arietinum (chickpeas),
Medicago sativa (alfalfa),
Arachis hypogaea (peanut),
Lathyrus odoratus (sweet pea),
‘ceratonia siliqua’
(carob)
glycyrrhiza glabra
(liquorice)
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[a number of species are also ‘weedy pests’ in different parts of the world, including…]
Cytisus scoparius
(broom)
Robinia pseudoacacia
(black locust)
Ulex europaeus
(gorse)
pueraria lobata
(kudzu)
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(…and a number of lupinus species)
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