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Parkia speciosa
Also called Stink Bean
In Singapore: Petai, Stink Bean, Twisted Cluster Bean, Nitta Tree, Nyiring, 臭豆, 葱豆 (Native to Singapore, Vulnerable)
1 NParks heritage tree in Singapore: Found in
Parkia speciosa is a large tropical tree in the pea family whose long flat pods hold edible, almond-sized green seeds prized in Southeast Asian cooking. It needs hot, humid, wet tropical conditions and is rarely grown outside the tropics.
Parkia speciosa, the bitter bean, twisted cluster bean, sator bean, stink bean, or petai is a plant of the genus Parkia in the family Fabaceae. It bears long, flat edible beans with bright green seeds the size and shape of plump almonds that have a rather peculiar smell that is similar to but stronger than that of the shiitake mushroom, due to sulfur-containing compounds also found in shiitake, truffles, and cabbage.
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Parkia speciosa 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.
