Seed-grown
Ice cream bean
Also called Inga
The pod is not ice cream. The white cotton around the seeds is sweet, vanilla-ish, and eaten fresh. You do not eat the seeds casually.
This variety
The fruit
The pod is not ice cream. The white cotton around the seeds is sweet, vanilla-ish, and eaten fresh. You do not eat the seeds casually.
Taste, season, cold, and how to plant this one.
- Taste
- The pod is not ice cream. The white cotton around the seeds is sweet, vanilla-ish, and eaten fresh. You do not eat the seeds casually.
- Ripens
- Summer pods on a tree that is old enough. These are seed-grown, so do not expect pods the first season.
- Zones
- Zones 9 to 11.
- Hardiness
- A fast tropical legume. Frost cuts it back. It is also a nitrogen fixer and a shade tree.
- Size
- Fast and large. It can become a 30-foot shade tree. Wonderful over a bench, wrong under a roof.
- Tips
- Plant it for shade and for children who like opening pods. Give it width. It is not a grafted fruit tree and will not behave like a mango.
- Pollination
- Self-fruitful. Bees visit the white flower brushes.