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Fabaceae
Black gram
Vigna mungo
Also known as Mash bean, Urad bean, Vigna mungo, Phaseolus aureus
Tropical Plants · Edibles & Herbs · Native Plants · Legume · Edible · Pulse · Tropical · Nitrogen-Fixing · Annual · Crop · South-Asian · Beans · Companion-Plant
Black gram is a warm-season legume crop best grown outdoors in full sun with well-draining, moderately fertile soil. It fixes atmospheric nitrogen, making it an excellent companion plant and soil improver for vegetable gardens. Water regularly but avoid waterlogging, and harvest the pods when they begin to turn black for the best seed yield.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 6 hours
- Watering
- Water moderately, keeping soil evenly moist but allowing the surface to dry slightly between waterings · Every 7-10 days
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Temperature
- -10°F to 95°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed
Hardiness
USDA 6a-11b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 4 ft
- Spread
- 18 in
- Spacing
- 18 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Deep
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Cameroon, Caroline Is., Central African Repu, Christmas I., East Himalaya, Fiji, Gabon, India, Malaya, Marianas, Maryland, Mexico Southeast, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies
Sources: trefle
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