- Scientific name
- Sesamum indicum
- Common name
- Beniseed
- Kingdom / family
- Pedaliaceae
- Genus
- Sesamum
- Category
- plantae
- Primary role
- crop
- Crop type
- vegetable
- Temperature
- 20 to 30 °C
- pH
- 5.5 to 7.5
- Precipitation
- 500 to 1000 mm
- Soil texture
- 6
- Light
- 3/10
- Native regions
- ["Assam","Bangladesh","India"]
- Invasive regions
- ["Afghanistan","Alabama","Andaman Is.","Angola","Belize","Benin","Bolivia","Borneo","Brazil North","Bulgaria","Burkina","Burundi","California","Cambodia","Cameroon","Caroline Is.","Central African Republic","Chad","China South-Central","China Southeast","Comoros","Congo","Costa Rica","Cuba","Cyprus","DR Congo","East Himalaya","Egypt","El Salvador","Eritrea","Eswatini","Ethiopia","Fiji","Florida","French Guiana","Gabon","Galápagos","Gambia","Georgia","Ghana","Greece","Guatemala","Guinea-Bissau","Guinea","Guyana","Hainan","Honduras","Iran","Ivory Coast","Japan","Jawa","Kazakhstan","Kenya","Korea","Krym","KwaZulu-Natal","Laos","Lebanon-Syria","Lesser Sunda Is.","Liberia","Libya","Louisiana","Madagascar","Malawi","Malaya","Mali","Marianas","Massachusetts","Mauritania","Mauritius","Mexico Gulf","Mexico Southwest","Missouri","Morocco","Mozambique","Myanmar","NW. Balkan Pen.","Nepal","New Jersey","New York","Nicobar Is.","Nigeria","Niger","Northern Provinces","Ohio","Oman","Pakistan","Pennsylvania","Peru","Philippines","Rwanda","Saudi Arabia","Senegal","Sierra Leone","Somalia","South Carolina","South European Russia"]