- Scientific name
- Canavalia ensiformis
- Common name
- Jack bean
- Kingdom / family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Canavalia
- Category
- plantae
- Primary role
- crop
- Crop type
- vegetable
- Growth habit
- annual legume, twining/climbing
- Temperature
- 20 to 28 °C
- pH
- 5 to 6
- Precipitation
- 800 to 2000 mm
- Light
- 5/10
- Native regions
- ["Alabama","Argentina Northeast","Argentina Northwest","Arizona","Belize","Bolivia","Brazil North","Brazil Southeast","Colombia","Costa Rica","Cuba","District of Columbia","Dominican Republic","Georgia","Haiti","Honduras","Jamaica","Leeward Is.","Mexico Gulf","Mexico Northeast","Mexico Southeast","Mexico Southwest","Mississippi","Missouri","Oklahoma","Panamá","Paraguay","Peru","Puerto Rico"]
- Invasive regions
- ["Galápagos Islands","Andaman Is.","Angola","Assam","Bangladesh","Benin","Borneo","Cambodia","Cameroon","Cape Provinces","Caroline Is.","Central African Republic","Chad","China Southeast","Congo","DR Congo","East Himalaya","El Salvador","Equatorial Guinea","Ethiopia","Florida","French Guiana","Gabon","Ghana","Guatemala","Guinea-Bissau","Guinea","Gulf of Guinea Is.","Guyana","Hainan","Illinois","India","Ivory Coast","Jawa","Kenya","Korea","KwaZulu-Natal","Laos","Lesser Sunda Is.","Liberia","Malaya","Maldives","Mali","Maluku","Marianas","Marshall Is.","Mauritius","Mozambique","Myanmar","Nauru","Nepal","New Caledonia","New Guinea","Nicobar Is.","Nigeria","Niger","Northern Provinces","Philippines","Queensland","Senegal","Sierra Leone","Society Is.","Sri Lanka","Sudan-South Sudan","Sulawesi","Sumatera","Suriname","Taiwan","Tanzania","Texas","Thailand"]