General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Vine
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Partial or Dappled Shade
Partial Shade to Full Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Fruit: Showy
Dehiscent
Other: 5 to 6 inch long wrinkled brown pods, covered with dense, irritating, gold hairs. Pods containing three 1/2 to 1 inch hard black seeds.
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Color: Green
Other: Greenish-cream pea-like flowers with distinctive curved petals.
Bloom Size: 1"-2"
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Hummingbirds
Resistances: Humidity tolerant
Pollinators: Bats

Image
Common names
  • Sea Bean
  • Beach Bean

Photo Gallery
Location: Atlantic Rainforest, Paraty, Brazil
Date: 2015-01-01
Location: By the river in the rainforest, Paraty, Brazil
Date: 2014-01-25
Location: Atlantic Rainforest, Paraty, Brazil
Date: 2015-02-06
Location: Atlantic Rainforest, Paraty, Brazil
Date: 2015-01-01

photo by Forest & Kim Starr (USGS)
Location: By the river in the rainforest, Paraty, Brazil
Date: 2014-01-25
On a host tree.
Location: Atlantic Rainforest, Paraty, Brazil
Date: 2015-01-01
Location: Atlantic Rainforest, Paraty, Brazil
Date: 2015-01-01
Location: Atlantic Rainforest, Paraty, Brazil
Date: 2015-01-01
Location: Atlantic Rainforest, Paraty, Brazil
Date: 2015-01-01
Location: Atlantic Rainforest, Paraty, Brazil
Date: 2014-01-12
Location: Atlantic Rainforest, Paraty, Brazil
Date: 2014-01-12
Location: Atlantic Rainforest, Paraty, Brazil
Date: 2014-01-12
Location: Museum of Toulouse
credit: Roger Culos & JP Chéreau
Comments:
  • Posted by bonitin (Ghent, Belgium - Zone 8a) on Apr 15, 2014 3:39 AM concerning plant:
    Don't touch the seed pod! I did as I was intrigued with it but felt it for days after in my fingers. What looks like hairs are actually very sharp needles that penetrate the skin!

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