Re: Lab-Lab

[Bob <rmhoward@omninet.net.au>]

Scott Pittman wrote:
> 
> 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 donīt 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
> 
Hmm! that's interesting - I think lablab purpureus is growing as a
'weed' near me, in Albany W.A. (35S and on the coast)We expereince a
mediterranean type climate and it survives on the sout side(poleward) of
hills and in damper parts of the eucalypt woodland. Bur I'm wondering
whether it's been confused with something else - any comments on this
old thread.

Bob