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["Marsha Hanzi" <hanzibra@svn.com.br>]

I didn´t know that lab lab was African.  That explains why it is used only locally and not comercially.  There are several vegetables ( very good ones!) which circulate from neighbor to neighbor but never appear in the seed shops.  They are all African in origin ( Bahia was a slave state until the beginning of this century, and has a strong African tradition..)

This lab lab is white.  Lab lab alba??? Speculating...

 

Marsha

----- Original Message -----

From: Scott Pittman

To: permaculture

Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 5:01 PM

Subject: Re: Lab-Lab

At 05:35 PM 10/27/00 -0200, you wrote:

Hello Mike!

When I planted soybeans, I lived in a tropical mountain region, near the
Tropic of Capricorn  but at 1,000m. altitude.  Summers were quite hot, but
we had three or four frosts in winter.

The lab lab which is used here is  local, and I confess that I don´t know
its Scientific name-- it is not sold in the stores but only traded through
neighbors.  .

Marsha

Scientific name is Lablab purpureus, also Lablab niger both edible and native of tropical Africa.  There are a lot of cultivars.

Scott

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