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  • COMMON NAME: Pigeon pea
  • ARABIC: بازلاء الحمامة
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Cajanus cajan (L.) Huth
  • SYNONYMS: Cajanus flavus, Cajanus indicus, Cajanus indicus var. flavus Kuntze, Cytisus cajan L.
  • FAMILY: FABACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Fodder (F) Apiculture (A)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Terrace
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production.
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1152177-2#synonyms V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/228988
It is used as animal food, a poison, a medicine and invertebrate food, has environmental uses and for fuel and food. Honey nectar plants.
Shrubs 2- 3 m tall; stems ribbed, golden sericeous. Leaves alternate, trifoliate; leaflets elliptic to lanceolate, lateral ones obliquely elliptic, 5-13 x 1.5-6 cm, upper surface glabrate, lower surface usually densely silvery pilose; stipules linear 2-3 mm long, stipels filiform 1-2 mm long. Flowers in axillary pseudo-racemes, rarely also terminal. Calyx golden tomentose and glandular, persistent in fruit. Standard petal yellow, 12-17 mm long, often reddish-lined or orange to purple externally; wings yellow, keel yellowish-green tinged orange to purple. Stamens diadelphous, anthers uniform. Pods 4-10 x.0.5-1 cm, yellow or green striped with maroon or dark purple, straight to sickle-shaped, pubescent and glandular, weakly septate within; seeds 2-9, cream or reddish brown, slightly laterally flattened, 4-9 x 3-8 mm. Flowering from February-May.
Cultivated places or gardens.
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