Ice Cream Bean (Short Pod)

This Ice Cream Bean – Inga Feuilleei  is a fast growing legume tree native to Central and South America

.A medium to large tree with spreading branches and beautiful white pompom shaped flowers.

The bronze to golden fruit pods look similar to a large bean incase a thick white pulp that tastes similar to vanilla ice-cream.

The ice cream bean is known for its nitrogen fixing properties and is a good choice as a fast growing shade tree in permaculture and syntropics plantings as well as a chop and drop.