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fava bean
Vicia faba
Vicia faba, also known as the broad bean, fava bean, faba bean, field bean, bell bean, or tic bean, is a species of flowering plant in the pea and bean family Fabaceae. It is native to North Africa southwest and south Asia, and extensively cultivated elsewhere. A variety Vicia faba var. equina Pers. – horse bean has been previously recognized.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.178
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.177
The Book of Health: The Art of Distillation
Brunschwig, Hieronymus · 1505 · p.95
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.364
Compendium of Materia Medica: Illustrated Volume Middle of Middle
李時珍 · 1596 · p.54
Zhiwu Mingshi Tukao (Vol. 1)
吳其濬 · 1848 · p.91
Complete Treatise on Agricultural Administration
Xu Guangqi · 1909 · p.807
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.102
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Vicia faba in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 57309.