Family: Fabaceae
Synonym: Dolichos phaseoloides Roxb., Pueraria phaseoloides (Roxb.) Benth.
Vernacular
name: Thotta-payar
Habit:
Climber
Habitat:
Along margins of cultivated lands
Flowering
& Fruiting: October-March
Distribution: Tropical
Asia
Key
identification features: Tropical Kudzu is a climbing,
perennial shrub, with slender, rusty-hairy stems. Leaves are trifoliate with
distinctive leaflets which are rhombic in shape. Leaflet margin sometimes have
undulations. Flowers arise in raceme-like clusters. Petals are lavender, with
white margins. Fruit is linear, velvety, dark grey.
Uses:
Used
as hay, silage and cut-and-carry forage
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