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Velvet Bean Pod – Mucuna pruriens
The Velvet Bean is a long climbing vine and can sometime grow to a length of 15m and produces either white or purple flowers these plants are native in eastern India and southern China, the plants have a short lifespan and they are always grown as annuals. The plants are used for repairing the nitrogen in soil and sometimes people use them to cover the ground allowing the properties of the plant to feed the soil when it rains, they are also grown for animal feed but wild animal will also eat them. The plants can cause itchiness to the skin but the hair like fibres on the pods stick to the skin and these will cause severe itching.
Velvet Bean Pod – Mucuna pruriens
The Velvet Bean is a long climbing vine and can sometime grow to a length of 15m and produces either white or purple flowers these plants are native in eastern India and southern China, the plants have a short lifespan and they are always grown as annuals. The plants are used for repairing the nitrogen in soil and sometimes people use them to cover the ground allowing the properties of the plant to feed the soil when it rains, they are also grown for animal feed but wild animal will also eat them. The plants can cause itchiness to the skin but the hair like fibres on the pods stick to the skin and these will cause severe itching.