Velvet bean or Yokohama bean, Mucuna pruriens.

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Velvet bean or Yokohama bean, Mucuna pruriens (Cow-hage dolichos, Dolichos pruriens). After an illustration in Stephenson and Churchill's Medical Botany. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants, Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text was chiefly by her late brother, British botanist Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800-1835).

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Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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