Photo: A. Barra — CC BY 3.0 · source
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Survives zone 2 through 7
⚠ Honestly: young seeds and pods are edible cooked but bland — an emergency/fallback food and poultry fodder rather than a treat. Cook the seeds (reported to contain the amino-acid analogue L-canavanine; eat in moderation); nitrogen-fixing.
- Hardiness
- Zone 2 to 7
- Habit
- Shrub
- Edible part
- Seed, Fruit
- Ripens
- Autumn
- Mature size
- Deciduous shrub/small tree 2–6 m
- Light
- Full sun (very light-demanding)
- Soil pH
- 6.0–7.5 (nitrogen-fixing; tolerates poor soil)
- Environment
- Temperate
- Status
- Both wild and cultivated
- Years to fruit
- 3–5 yrs
- Pollination
- Insect-pollinated, fragrant yellow flowers; nitrogen-fixing