Common name:
Variable Glycine

Family name:
Fabaceae

Botanical name:
Glycine tabacina

Flowering/fruiting season:
Spring - summer

Location:
'Not common in ACT but has been collected from dry sclerophyll areas near Canberra.' (Burbidge & Gray, 1976:230)

Use:

Notes:
Closely related species to the cultivated Asian soybean Glycine maxima. However there is no record of Aboriginal use of the seeds. (Gott, 1995)

Language names:

Horticulture :
Propagation from seed; climbs through other plants (Wrigley & Fagg, 1998:606)

Similar species:
Glycine clandestina Twining Glycine - smaller plant
Common in woodland and forest areas (Burbidge & Gray, 1976)

Use code:
ROOT

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