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Family: Fabaceae
Synonyms:

Aeschynomene grandiflora ((L.) L.),
Agatigrandiflora ((L.) Desv.),
Robinia grandiflora (L.),
Sesban grandiflorus (Poir.).

Philippine local names:

Katuray (Tagalog, Ibanag, Pangasinen-se), Diana (Bisaya), Katuday (Ilocano, Ibanag), Gauai-gauai (Camarines, Capiz, Negros), Kature (Pampango) and Kambangturi (Sulu).

English Name: Vegetable hummingbird, Agati

Botanical Description

Family, Fabaceae. It is a species of tropical climate, short lived, quick growing and soft wooded tree. It grows up to 6-9 meters high and is cultivated in various parts of South India. Flowers are fleshy with large showy white, pink or crimson petals.

They are 7.5 to 10cms long with short axillary racemes. Leaves are long, abruptly pinnate; leaflets 41-61 linear, oblong, and glabrous. It is known as Swamp pea in English, Agathi and Agasthya in Sanskrit, Agase in Kannada. Tender leaves, flowers and pods are used as vegetable and considered excellent source of vitamin C and calcium1. Seeds are rich in protein. The dried leaves are used as tea and is considered to have antibiotic, antihelminthic, antitumour and contraceptive properties. A poultice made from the leaf juice is effective in bruises1,2. Whole plant is used in Ayurvedic formulations like Grahani kapata rasa, Ratnagiri rasa and Pittakasantaka rasa etc3. The leaf is widely used in detoxification process of Ayurvedic metallo mineral drug, Manashila (AS2S2)4. Agathi leaves contains moisture- 73.1gms, protein- 8.4 gms, fat-1.4 gms, minerals- 3.1 gms, crude fibers- 2.2gms, carbohydrates- 11.8 mg, energy-93 mg, calcium-1130 mg, phosphorus-80 mg, iron- 3.9 mg5.

=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280920037_Traditional_and_ayurvedic_medicinal_
importance_of_Agasthya_leaves_Sesbania_grandiflora_L_
Pers_WRT_its_pharmacognostic_and_physicochemical_evaluation

Agroclimatic/Edaphic adaption/Ecology

Climate and soil requirements
The tree grows where there is good soil and hot humid temperature. It's a tropical plant and dies in snow and cold weather. It is commonly grown throughout the lower elevation of the Philippines.
=Katuray - Bureau of Plant Industry

Geographical Distribution

Native to:
Tropical Asia including, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar and Philippines, with possiblyIndonesia as the centre of diversity. Closely
related to the Australian species,S. formosa.
Widespread exotic distribution: northern Australia (possibly native), Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti,
Dominican Republic, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guadeloupe, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kenya,Liberia, Mali, Martinique,
Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Puerto Rico,Senegal,Sierra Leone,Somalia,South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda,
United States of America.
Has been cultivated in West Africa for at least 140 years.

=http://www.tropicalforages.info/key/forages/Media/Html/entities/sesbania_grandiflora.pdf

Agronomy Production Systems

Guidelines for the establishment and management ofsown pastures.

Propagation

It can be propagated by cuttings, seedlings, direct seeding, and aerial sowing.

Planting Material Availability

Fertiliser

Tolerant of low fertilitysoils so that no fertiliser isgenerallyrequired.

Pests and diseases

S.grandiflora is susceptible to severe pest attacks from leaf webbers, leaf feeders and stem borers. The stem borer Azygophleps
scalaris has caused occasional damage in India. Larvae of the seed chalcid Bruchophagus mellipes infest and damage seed. Highly
susceptible to the root-knot nematode Melodogyne incognita. Susceptible to greyleafspot Pseudocercospora sesbaniae, with variable
susceptibility depending on provenance (accessions from Malabar more tolerant than those from the Southern Ghats in India).
Sesbania mosaic virus is reported in India and is spread from infected growingtrees.

=http://www.tropicalforages.info/key/forages/Media/Html/entities/sesbania_grandiflora.pdf

Part utilized as vegetables

Flower

Uses

Food/ Edibility/ Culinary

The green pods are eaten by humans and livestock. The young leaves which contain 36% crude protein are also eaten by man and livestock, and reportedly increase the milk production of cattle. The leaves are made into leaf meal for feeds.

The fresh flowers of Katuray are eaten as vegetable in stews and salads in Southeast Asia, like Laos; Thailand; Java in Indonesia; Vietnam; and the Ilocos Region in the Philippines.
In the Thai language the flowers are called dokkhae and are used in the Thai cuisine both cooked in curries, such as kaengsom and kaengkhae as well as raw with namphrik.

The young pods are also eaten, along with the leaves. In Sri Lanka, agatileaves, known as Katuramurunga in Sinhala language, are sometimes added to sudhuhodhi or white curry, (a widely-eaten, thin coconut gravy) believed locally to be a cure for canker sores. In India this plant is known as agati (Hindi), agastya (Kannada), agise (Telugu), and both the leaves and the flowers have culinary uses.

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Feed/ Fodder

No long-term animal production studies have been reported, butS.grandiflora is a major component of ruminant diets in eastern
Indonesia where it may comprise up to 70% of total forage allowance during the dry season. Anecdotal reports of high live weight gains
in cattle are common. In India, milk yield was increased by 8% (9.2-9.9 l/day) when cattle were fed 5 kg fresh leaf/day.
In Western Samoa,goats failed to gain weight when supplemented with S.grandiflora , although the reasons for this poor result were
not identified. The authors suggested that supplementation with S.grandiflora should be limited to 30% of total feed on the basis of
this experiment.
Poor weight gains in chickens has led to the recommendation that supplementation of poultry feeds with S.grandiflora should be
limited to 2% of total ration.

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Medicinal

S. grandiflora has a hypolipidemic action against cigarette smoke
induced hyperlipidemia. These results provide further support to the traditional medicinal
use of S. grandiflora for the treatment of cigarette smoke induced hyperlipidemia
associated diseases.

=https://pharmacologyonline.silae.it/files/archives/2006/vol3/024.Ramesh.pdf

this wild leafy plant has numerous antioxidant factors that destroying the free radicals that damage the cells. S. grandiflora contain many enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants and could be a good source of dietary antioxidants which play an important role in the prevention of diseases associated with oxidative stress.

=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/
322207276_ANTIOXIDANT_ACTIVITY_IN_LEAVES_
OF_SESBANIA_GRANDIFLORA_L_PERS

Correct Citation

Documentation of Indigenous Vegetables (2020) Retrieved from www.iveg.com.

See references:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280920037_Traditional_and_ayurvedic_medicinal_importance_of_Agasthya_leaves_Sesbania_grandiflora_L_Pers_WRT_its_pharmacognostic_and_physicochemical_evaluation
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322207276_ANTIOXIDANT_ACTIVITY_IN_LEAVES_OF_SESBANIA_GRANDIFLORA_L_PERS
http://www.tropicalforages.info/key/forages/Media/Html/entities/sesbania_grandiflora.pdf
https://www.scribd.com/document/203576759/katuray-Sesbania-sesban-L-Merr-Sesbania-grandiflora-L-Pers

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Flower

Provinces where specific IVs were documented

IloiloLeyteSouth CotabatoSurigao del Norte

Map Source: PhilGIS

Properties

Food Composition per 100g Edible Portion	Unit	Sesbania flower	Sesbania flower, boiled	Sesbania leaves	Sesbania leaves, boiled
Water Energy, calculated Energy, calculated Protein Total Fat Carbohydrate, total Carbohydrate, available Ash, total	g kcal kJ g g g g g	92.3 31 130 1 0.3 6.1 4 0.3	93 28 118 1 0.3 5.4 3.5 0.3	81.4 76 317 6.6 1.4 9.2 - 1.4	87.3 51 213 6 0.8 4.9 - 1

courtesy of Food and Nutrition Research Institute Department of Science and Technology

See also:

Katuray

Sesbania grandiflora (L.) Pers.

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