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  Bean @ iCookClub.com
Bean is a common name for large plant seeds of several genera of Fabaceae (formerly Leguminosae) used for food or feed.
Bean originally meant the seed of the broad bean, but was later broadened to include members of the genus Phaseolus such as the common bean or haricot and the runner bean and the related genus Vigna.
Bean can be used as a near synonym of pulse, an edible legume, though the term "pulses" is usually reserved for leguminous crops harvested for their dry grain.
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  Finance Choices - Personal Finance Wiki
Bean can be used as a near synonym of pulse, an edible legume, though the term "pulses" is usually reserved for leguminous crops harvested for their dry grain.
Beans are one of the longest-cultivated plants, broad beans having been grown at least since ancient Egypt, green beans for six thousand years in the Americas.
Many modern dry beans come from old-world varieties of broad beans, but most of the kinds you eat fresh come from the Americas, being first seen by Christopher Columbus during his conquest of a region of what may have been the Bahamas, where they were grown in fields.
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 Coral bean -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The coral bean grows as a low shrub or small tree, reaching around 5 metres in height in areas that do not kill it back by freezing.
They are followed by pods containing bright red seeds, which are poisonous enough to have been used in the past as a (Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse) rat poison.
The coral bean grows in pinelands, (A hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swing easily) hammocks, and disturbed areas.
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 Flamboyant legumes add color and texture
In zone 9, where coral bean tends to be evergreen, plant size will be greater and pods produced sooner than in the northern regions of our state.
Coral bean's only pests of consequence are deer, undeterred by the plant's short spines.
Like coral bean, it is evergreen in warmer regions, tolerates droughts, flowers and fruits from spring through autumn, produces spines, bears pendant furry pods, propagates from scarified toxic seed, and attracts winged wildlife.
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 Thursday's Plant -- Erythrina herbacea
Coral bean grows vigorously and produces bright-red flowers followed by red beans.
Coral bean is usually found in sandy soils from Texas and Louisiana to Florida, northward to North Carolina, and south into Mexico's northern states.
Coral bean generally has one bloom period, in March-April-May, but its bright-red flowers may occasionally appear in late summer.
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 Botanical Jewelry
Mescal beans are especially interesting because they were used by a number of Indian tribes in a vision-seeking "Red Bean Dance," centered around the ingestion of the potent seeds.
Coral trees are also commonly grown as shade trees on coffee and cacao plantations of Central and South America, and are often called "madre arbol" and "madre de cacao" by local natives.
Unlike the true sea beans, the Mary's bean is produced by a beach vine of the morning-glory family (Convolvulaceae).
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 Southwestern Coral Bean
Southwestern Coral Bean is a member of the Pea Family.
The bright red seeds of the Southwestern Coral Bean are very poisonous and sometimes used in Mexican jewelry.
Southwestern Coral Bean blooms between May - July and produces a bright red flower with 3 inch tubular pea like petals that grow in a terminal cluster.
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 City of Coral Springs, Florida
Ickes, along with three other members of Coral Ridge Properties, was recruited in order to have enough residents to qualify as an incorporated municipality.
A. On July 10, 1963, Coral Springs was offically chartered by special act of the Florida legislature.
A. The Coral Springs McDonald's is the only one without golden arches because of the City's rigid sign restrictions.
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 Online Dictionary for French English, Spanish English, Italian English, and more.
Beans eaten before they are ripe as opposed to dried.
Seed of Mexican shrubs of the genus Sebastiana containing the larva of a moth whose movements cause the bean to jerk or tumble; SYN: jumping seed, Mexican jumping bean.
The common bean plant grown for the beans rather than the pods especially a variety with large red kidney-shaped beans; SYN: frijol, frijole.
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 About Coral Springs - Coral Springs Directory
Coral Springs' government is comprised of a five-member City Commission, all nonpartisan and elected at large with elections held every 2 years.
Coral Springs is also proud to take an active role in preserving a remaining part of land within its city limits that neighbor the marsh lands in the Everglades National Park.
Coral Springs' desire of athletics and the environment are beautifully merged in creating the healthy outdoor lifestyle that has attracted prospective residents in droves and its current ones more than proud to call it their home.
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 eNature: Ask an Expert
Coral Bean Description A shrub or small tree, leafless much of the year, with prickly stems and leafstalks, and long, bright red flowers in racemes near ends of the branches.
Coral Bean, Erythrina flabelliformis can grow to be quite tall in favorable conditions, and it is possible that the tree you saw in Los Angeles is getting some extra care.
It has the smooth bark you mentioned along with the stunning blooms, but it has leaves for much of the growing season and is not a desert plant.
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 emilycompost - Celebrating gardening, plants, and weeds
The coral bean is normal seen in south Florida, however there are many sighting in other parts of Florida.
The fruit of the coral bean is a brown pod about 4 - 5 inches long.
In general, the coral bean is a pretty tough plant.
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 Floridata: Erythrina herbacea
Cherokee bean is a showy semi-herbaceous member of the bean (Leguminosae/Fabaceae) family.
Coral bean is deciduous and has interesting compound leaves made up of three leaflets that are uniquely shaped with pointed tips and a bulge in the middle.
The coral tree or tiger claw, Erythrina variegata is a spectacular tropical tree that is grown in South Florida.
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 Coral Springs Florida Condos - Condominiums, Real Estate, Vacation Rentals - CondoCompany.com
Search for condos in Coral Springs for sale, for rent, or vacation rentals, or give one of our Condo Specialists a call; they are all qualified professionals who specialize in the Coral Springs real estate.
Coral Springs is a great place to raise a family and just enjoy yourself, minutes from both Ft. Lauderdale and Boca Raton, but far enough away to allow the peace and tranquility of its many parks, lakes and Championship golf courses to permeate your mind.
The new exhibit entitled “From a Hill of Beans” includes aerial images of the land, when it was one big bean field, its early development and future plan.
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 Coral Bean
Coral Bean is a natural legume whose bright, red flowers are instant butterfly attractors.
Large beans split and reveal red seeds in summer and fall
Plant Coral Bean under oaks or any place where a splash of color is needed.
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 Erythrina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
However, the growth of the branches can resemble the shape of sea coral, and this is an alternative source for the name.
In horticulture, the name "coral tree" is used to refer to any red-flowered member of the genus.
There are about 130 species in the Genus Erythrina, some of them well known, as they are used widely in the tropics and subtropics as street and park trees, especially in drier areas.
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 National Gardening Association :: Regional Reports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
You may have seen Crybaby Tree and Coral Bean, but probably not in a nursery near you until recently.
Coral Bean (or Mamou) is a native of the southeast that sprouts each spring into clumps of stems topped by great spikes lined with red tube flowers.
Neither are difficult sow but since Coral Bean resists transplanting, sow seeds in fall where the plants will grow.
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 coral. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
Coral deposits often accumulate to form reefs or islands in warm seas.
The red-orange, pinkish, or white deposits secreted by corals of the genus Corallium, used to make jewelry and ornaments.
A deep or strong pink to moderate red or reddish orange.
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 Texas Native Plants Database   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Coral bean blooms from May to June, before the leaves appear, with glowing dark red waxy flowers on spikes that can be up to one foot long.
Coral bean is very cold tender, and above 28 degrees F. it will die back to the roots like a perennial, but will return in the spring, often reaching 3 to 5 feet in a season.
A good choice for hot, sunny sites, coral bean is moderately drought tolerant once established, and grows best in well-drained soil.
aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu /ornamentals/nativeshrubs/erythrinaherbace.htm   (203 words)

  
 California Gardens - Erythrina bidwillii - Coral Bean Tree
Erythrina bidwilli is one of the smaller Coral trees, growing 10-12 feet tall and a little wider than its height.
The Coral Bean tree is deciduous but will bloom whenever it is growing.
Erythrina bidwillii is one of most winter tolerant of the Coral trees surviving winter temperatures as low as 20 degrees and surviving from the roots below that.
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 Floridian: Nature of Florida
Coral beans lurk inside these pods; however, even when the berries look good enough to eat, they’re for the birds.
Coral bean bushes are already producing their fall berry crop.
The seeds are hard to collect, though, because the shrub’s stems are studded with small thorns.
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 Houston Arboretum & Nature Center - Coral Bean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
This is an interesting, dense, thorny shrub with light green leaves that are broad at the base and taper at the tips to a point.
Spikes of red flowers appear in April with the lower flowers opening first and fading as the upper flowers open.
Other species of this plant are grown in Mexico for coffee and cocoa, and the seeds are strung in necklaces.
www.houstonarboretum.org /Coral_Bean.htm   (97 words)

  
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 coral definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
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hard marine deposit: a hard deposit consisting of the skeletons of coral, often forming ocean reefs
something made of coral: a piece of coral, especially red coral or an object made from one
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 Erythrina flabelliformis - Coralbean - Wildflowers of Tucson, Arizona
The 3 inch (7.6 cm) long flowers are in showy terminal clusters and they attract hummingbirds.
The flowers appear before the plants leaf out and are followed by large, brown pods with large, attractive, highly toxic, red beans.
The green leaves are divided into 3 fan-shaped leaflets.
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Coral tree is 9-12m tall with a smooth grayish bark, not corky; hooked prickles scattered on trunk and branches; leaves with 3 leaflets, up to 17 cm long, peti...
Animals of all kinds march two by two in this pair parade.
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 PlantFiles: Detailed information on Cherokee Bean, Coral Bean Erythrina herbacea
Cherokee Bean may die back in very cold weather but new growth will appear in the spring.The bright red seeds are poisonous.
The bean pods containing the seeds can be harvested to prevent ingestion by inquisitive pets and children.
The coral bean is a beautiful Texas Native plant, that brings gorgeous color to the spring garden.
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 Erythrina flabelliformis-PSW/LSN
Without this ability, coral bean would probably not have been able to adapt to our climate, which here in Tucson usually includes a dozen or so freezes a year.
The brilliant red seeds (thus the name 'coral bean') are toxic if eaten, but will not set at all with only one plant in flower.
The genus 'Erythrina' refers to the red flowers and the species name 'flabelliformis' means fan-like, referring to the shape of the individual leaflets.
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 Coral Bean (Erythrina herbacea)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
A long-lived perennial, Coral Bean shoots out spikes of tropical looking foilage from a swollen root stock.
The exotic flowers form along the tip of each spike and are then replaced by dangling pods which show off the coral red seeds.
This plant adapts well to shady spots with heavy soil and poor drainage but thrives in landscape beds as well.
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 Coral Tree   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
However, because we get freezing temperatures during the winter, it always dies back to the base, which, in the two oldest plants, has become a large, curled-up ball, like the trunk of a deformed tree.
There are large trees that grow in frost-free areas of Florida that have the same leaves and blossoms and are called cock-spur (because of their nasty little backwards pointing thorns on each leaf), coral, or flame coral trees.
Besides hummingbirds, many other creatures are attracted to the coral trees, including predators such as spiders and praying mantises, who are lured by the many insects visiting the flowers.
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