Bush Lab Lab Dolichos chicken bean seeds

Bush Lab Lab Dolichos chicken bean seeds

Bush Lab Lab Dolichos chicken bean seeds is an open pollinated variety – summer-growing annual or occasionally short-lived perennial forage legume.  It has a deep taproot and vigorous, glabrous or pubescent trailing stems.

Bush Lab Lab Dolichos chicken bean seeds leaves are alternate and trifoliolate. The leaflets are rhomboid in shape, 7.5-15 cm long x 8-14 cm broad, acute at the apex. The upper surface is smooth while the underside has short hairs. Inflorescences are many-flowered racemes borne on elongated peduncles. The flowers are white to blue or purple in colour, about 1.5 cm long, typically papillonaceous in shape.

Bush Lab Lab Dolichos chicken bean seeds fruits are linear, 4-15 cm long x 1-4 cm broad, smooth and beaked pods that contain between 2 and 8 seeds.

Bush Lab Lab Dolichos chicken bean seeds is a multipurpose legume. Its immature seeds and pods, and young leaves are edible and cooked as vegetables. Mature dry beans are edible but they require prolonged cooking with several changes of water.

How to grow: Dibble single seed 30 cm apart on one side of the ridge formed at a spacing of 60 cm for bush type.

For pandal type sow 2 – 3 seeds/pit at 2 x 3 m spacing. Spacing for this Dolichos beans is 1 x 1 m.

Bush Lab Lab Dolichos chicken bean seeds can be grown throughout the year; Climbing type can be grown during July – August.