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Glycine latifolia

Glycine latifolia is a scrambling perennial legume native to eastern Australia, valued mainly as a wild relative of soybean. It is a wild species rather than a common garden plant, so it is grown mostly by researchers and collectors.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly during the growing season and let the top of the soil dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile loam or a general potting mix.
Temperature
15–30 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Moderate
Edible
Yes, some parts
Native range
E. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Glycine latifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to Queensland and New South Wales in Australia. A perennial, it is a crop wild relative of soybean (Glycine max), and shows resistance to a number of pathogens that afflict soybeans.

Other Glycine plants

Soybean

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Glycine latifolia 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.

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