Pueraria thunbergiana Benth.

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Pueraria Thunbergiana (Siebold and Zuccarini) Bentham, Linn. Soc. Bot.f
. Jour. 9:122,1865.
Coarse, densely brown-hairy, trailing or somewhat twining vine with large tuberous
loots. Leaves pinnately 3-foliate, long petiolate, leaflets ovate, densely hairy, lower pair
Ibliquely asymmetrical, shallowly lobed, acuminate. Flowers about 2 cm. long, purplish
lilac, in large, axillary, spike-like clusters. Pod 6 or more cm. long, densely hairy.
Common along roadsides, in plantations, waste areas, and clearings (9711,
10124, 10227). The foot is cooked and eaten during times of food shortage.
English name, kudzu bean. Native names, aka, aka fala, fou gau.
Flora of Niue Island
Herbarium of Bernice P. Bishop Mnaeuin
Pueraria Thunbergiana (S.& Z.) Bentham
Pis. purple-lilac. Climbing in thicket
near Mutalau. 65 m. alt. Jan.17,1940.
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