Sibatsi also known as Bataw and Hyacinth bean

Scientific name: Lablab purpureus, Bataw, sibatsi (sibachi)

Sibatsi is a smooth, twining, climbing or trailing vine, 4 to 6 meters long, often

with smooth, usually purplish stems. Leaves are long stalked, 3-foliate with in
equilateral leaflets. Leaflets are entire, ovate, and 7 to 15 centimeters long.
Flowers are few to many, white to pink-purple in color, about 2 centimeters
long, on erect, long peduncled racemes 15 to 25 centimeters long. Pods are
oblong, flattened, purple-margined, flat, and elongated with a prominent beak,
about 7 to 12 centimeters long and 2 centimeters wide, containing 3 to 5
seeds

- Tender pods, seeds and young leaves used as vegetable.

- Tender young seed pods and immature seeds can be eaten raw or cooked.
Mature seeds are edible when thoroughly cooked. (see toxicity concerns
above)
- Young leaves and pods are good sources of calcium, iron, vitamin C, and
other minerals.

In many Asian households, like Philippines, tender, immature, whole lablab

beans most often used in the cooking. It is a common recipe of Bulanglang.

Planting crops, trees and any kinds of plants relates to Water Engineering
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