Cajanus cajan

Stems are slender with alternate spirally arranged leaves. Leaves are trifoliate and leaflets are oblong or elliptical in shape. The yellow flowers are produced on racemes of 5–10 flowers. The seed pods are flat and either straight or sickle shaped and measure 5-9 cm in length. Each pod can contain between 2 and 9 seeds which can be white, cream, brown, yellow, purple or black or mottled with any combination of these colors. Thin roots are up to 2 m deep.