Winged bean

 

winged bean is a vegetable that belong to pulse. it is creeper that grow along a support that we provide. it could be stick tree branch or any thing stiff enough to grow along. winged bean is unique vegetable that come in two colors green and purple. green winged bean is the common verity. when it come leaf shape normal broad leaf verity and long leaf verity also grown. this vegetable perform well in dry climate condition and flower blooming also induce with dry climate. vegetable need to harvest before become mature tender beans are good to east as raw salad or cooked. since this vegetable is pulse it contain lot of proteins and fiber.

since this plant is pulse it can absorb nitrogen through root granules with the help of rhizobium bacteria. and rhizobium bacteria live in root nodules of the winged bean plant. plant provide food for the bacteria and bacteria fix nitrogen instead for food there for plant and bacteria co exist. due to that plant dose not need that much fertilizer inputs. there for this plant is excellent as organic cultivation. in other hand pest attacks for this plant also minimal that is another advantage.