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Vigna angularis
Also called Azuki Bean, Red Bean
Adzuki bean is a bushy or twining annual vine grown mainly for its small red seeds, which are sweetened into red bean paste across East Asia. It needs warm weather and a long growing season, and grows best in full sun.
Vigna angularis, also known as the adzuki bean (Japanese: 小豆, Hepburn: azuki), azuki bean, aduki bean, red bean, or red mung bean, is an annual vine widely cultivated throughout East Asia for its small (approximately 5 mm or 1⁄4 in long) bean. The cultivars most familiar in East Asia have a uniform red color, but there are white, black, gray, and variously mottled varieties.
Scientists presume Vigna angularis var. nipponensis is the progenitor.
In East Asian cuisine, adzuki beans are most commonly sweetened before eating. They are often boiled with sugar to produce red bean paste, a widely used ingredient throughout the region. The paste is sometimes flavored with ingredients such as chestnut and serves as a filling or topping in numerous traditional dishes.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Adzuki bean 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.
