Red bean is a common name for several plants and may refer to: *

Adzuki bean ''Vigna angularis'', also known as the adzuki bean , azuki bean, aduki bean, red bean, or red mung bean, is an annual vine widely cultivated throughout East Asia for its small (approximately long) bean. The cultivars most familiar in East Asia ...

(''Vigna angularis''), commonly used in Japanese, Korean, and Chinese cuisine, particularly as

red bean paste Red bean paste () or red bean jam, also called adzuki bean paste or ''anko'' (a Japanese word), is a paste made of red beans (also called "adzuki beans"), used in East Asian cuisine. The paste is prepared by boiling the beans, then mashing or ...

Kidney bean The kidney bean is a variety of the common bean (''Phaseolus vulgaris''). It resembles a human kidney and thus is named after such. Red kidney beans should not be confused with other red beans, such as adzuki beans. Classification There are ...

, red variety of ''

Phaseolus vulgaris ''Phaseolus vulgaris'', the common bean, is a herbaceous annual plant grown worldwide for its edible dry seeds or green, unripe pods. Its leaf is also occasionally used as a vegetable and the straw as fodder. Its botanical classification, alo ...

'', commonly used in Indian and North American cuisine, such as ''chili con carne''. * '' Vigna umbellata'', a species of legume whose seeds are red * '' Dysoxylum rufum'', a rainforest tree in the Mahogany family * '' Dysoxylum mollissimum subsp. molle'', a rainforest tree

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