Wednesday, October 19, 2011

petai

Photo : Ubi Lepih

Parkia speciosa (petai) is a plant of the genus Parkia in the family Fabaceae. It bears long, flat edible beans with bright green seeds the size and shape of plump almonds which have a rather peculiar smell, characterised by some as being similar to natural gas. (more in wiki)

1 comment:

Roberto Machado Alves said...

A beautiful photo. The look of the man in the background is spectacular.