INDIAN BEAN

Tree of the genus catalpa with large leaves and white flowers followed by long slender pods

• catalpa  11

• bean tree

• catalpa bignioides
• catalpa speciosa

Perennial twining vine of old world tropics having trifoliate leaves and racemes of fragrant purple pea-like flowers followed by maroon pods of edible seeds; grown as an ornamental and as a vegetable on the indian subcontinent; sometimes placed in genus dolichos

• bonavist
• dolichos lablab
• egyptian bean
• hyacinth bean
• lablab purpureus