snailflower, n.
(snailflowers)
(snailflowers)
perennial tropical American vine cultivated for its racemes of showy yellow and purple flowers having the corolla keel coiled like a snail shell; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus
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Phaseolus caracalla Vigna caracalla corkscrew flower snail bean snail flower snail-flower snailflower