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Cyamopsis tetragonoloba
Also called Cluster Bean, Calcutta Lucerne, Siam Bean, Guar Bean
Guar is a drought-tolerant annual legume grown mainly for its seeds, which are the source of guar gum. It thrives in hot, semiarid conditions with full sun and well-drained soil, and needs little water once established.
The guar (from Hindi: ग्वार: gvār) or cluster bean, with the botanical name Cyamopsis tetragonoloba, is an annual legume and the source of guar gum. It is also known as gavar, gawar, or guvar bean.
The genus name Cyamopsis means bean-like (from Greek: κύαμος, romanized: kýamos: "bean" + Greek: ὄψις, romanized: ópsis: "view"). The specific name is from Greek: τετράγωνον, romanized: tetrágōnon and Latin: lobus (itself being a loanword of Ancient Greek λοβός) meaning four-squared-lobed.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Guar by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
