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Phaseolus glabellus

Phaseolus glabellus is a wild bean species native to Mexico, related to the common kidney bean, with red flowers. It is grown mainly as a climbing or trailing legume in warm, seasonally dry conditions.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly during the growing season and let the top of the soil dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained loam or sandy soil with moderate fertility.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Mexico
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Phaseolus glabellus is a species of flowering plant in the genus Phaseolus. It is native to Mexico, with red flowers.

Other Phaseolus plants

Tepary bean · Slimleaf bean · Scarlet runner · Year Bean · Slimjim bean · Gray's Bean · Bean · Lima bean · Spotted bean · Few Flowered Bean · Thicket bean · Santa Rita Mountain bean

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Phaseolus glabellus 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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