翼豆是一种新发现的生长在湿热带地区的特殊豆科植物，因它的豆荚上对称地排列着四个凸起如翼的部分而得名，又称四翼豆、四棱豆，它既可以收获豆子又可以收获根部块茎供食用，其豆子与大豆相像，其块茎似马铃薯、甘薯。翼豆原产于泰国、缅甸、印度、印尼、孟加拉国、中国南部 Wing bean is a newly discovered special legumes growing in the humid tropics because of its pod symmetrically arranged with four raised wings, named after the wing, also known as the four wing beans, It can harvest both beans and roots can be harvested for consumption, the beans and soybeans are similar, its tubers like potato, sweet potato. Wing beans native to Thailand, Myanmar, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, southern China