Adzuki bean

Adzuki beans
	Also called "red mung beans"
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Faboideae
Genus:	Vigna
Species:	V. angularis
Binomial name
	Vigna angularis; (Willd.) Ohwi & H. Ohashi

Vigna angularis, also known as the adzuki bean (Japanese: 小豆 (アズキ), azuki, Uncommon アヅキ, adzuki), azuki bean, aduki bean, red bean, or red mung bean, is an annual vine widely cultivated throughout East Asia for its small (approximately 5 mm or 1⁄4 in long) bean. The cultivars most familiar in East Asia have a uniform red color, but there are also white, black, gray, and variously mottled varieties.

Scientists presume Vigna angularis var. nipponensis is the progenitor.^[1]

^ Yang, K; Tian, Z; Chen, C; Luo, L; Zhao, B; Wang, Z; Yu, L; Li, Y; Sun, Y; Li, W; Chen, Y; Li, Y; Zhang, Y; Ai, D; Zhao, J; Shang, C; Ma, Y; Wu, B; Wang, M; Gao, L; Sun, D; Zhang, P; Guo, F; Wang, W; Li, Y; Wang, J; Varshney, R. K; Wang, J; Ling, H. Q; Wan, P (2015). "Genome sequencing of adzuki bean (Vigna angularis) provides insight into high starch and low fat accumulation and domestication". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112 (43): 13213–13218. Bibcode:2015PNAS..11213213Y. doi:10.1073/pnas.1420949112. PMC 4629392. PMID 26460024.

[1] Yang, K; Tian, Z; Chen, C; Luo, L; Zhao, B; Wang, Z; Yu, L; Li, Y; Sun, Y; Li, W; Chen, Y; Li, Y; Zhang, Y; Ai, D; Zhao, J; Shang, C; Ma, Y; Wu, B; Wang, M; Gao, L; Sun, D; Zhang, P; Guo, F; Wang, W; Li, Y; Wang, J; Varshney, R. K; Wang, J; Ling, H. Q; Wan, P (2015). "Genome sequencing of adzuki bean (Vigna angularis) provides insight into high starch and low fat accumulation and domestication". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112 (43): 13213–13218. Bibcode:2015PNAS..11213213Y. doi:10.1073/pnas.1420949112. PMC 4629392. PMID 26460024.

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