Mucuna

The middle and lower layers include representatives of the Amaryllidaceae, sedges, and large ferns Angiopteris and Marattia, as well as climbers such as Freycinetia, Gnetum, Mucuna, Bauhinia, Piper, and Smilax.

Seram rain forests 2008

An example is Mucuna urens, which has flowers that are clearly different from the continental plant because the island form is pollinated by an endemic finch rather than a bat, which do not exist on the island.

Cocos Island moist forests 2007

Mature forests are richly draped with lianas, especially Congea tomentosa and Mucuna pruriens.

Chin Hills-Arakan Yoma montane forests 2007

(Physostigma venenosum), whose hairy pod is very distasteful to the travelling skin: it was a “Mucuna urens.”

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Mucuna spp., has probably had more impact on farmers lives than any plant distributed from our seedbank.

6: Soil health and plant nutrition 1996

The multiple uses of velvet bean (Mucuna spp.) as a green manure plant, for weed and erosion control and for moisture conservation has been discussed (see chapter on Soil Health).

11: Human health care 1996

One of these plants is called Velvet Bean (Mucuna deeringiana), but you may know it by some other name.

28 additional technical notes about tropical agriculture 1996

Velvet bean (Mucuna spp. and other scientific names) is by far the most promising green manure that we have worked with in Central America.

6: Soil health and plant nutrition 1996

· Dry and pound: I whole plant of Sida cordifolia (country mallow), some mature seeds of Mucuna pruriens

Chapter 30 1994

Mucuna pruriens (L) D.C. This plant is found in thickets and secondary forests at low and medium altitudes from Northern Luzon to Mindanao.

Chapter 9 1993