page_title: Adzuki bean
section_title: Botany
hierarchical_section_title: Adzuki bean / Botany
caption_attribution_description: Vigna angularis
context_page_description: The adzuki bean, or red mung bean, is an annual vine widely cultivated throughout East Asia for its small bean. The cultivars most familiar in East Asia have a uniform red color, but white, black, gray, and variously mottled varieties also are known.
  Scientists presume Vigna angularis var. nipponensis is the progenitor.
context_section_description: The description of the adzuki bean can vary between authors because there are both wild and cultivated forms of the plant. 
  The adzuki bean is an annual, rarely biennial bushy erect or twining herb usually between 30 and 90 centimeters high. There exist climbing or prostrate forms of the plant. The stem is normally green and sparsely pilose.
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