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Fabaceae FAMILY Least Concern

Lupinus bogotensis

Lupinus bogotensis

Edibility
2/5
Medicinal
3/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Cultivation Details

HabitShrub
Growth—

Lupinus bogotensis is a plant of high elevations in the tropical zone of the Andes, where it is known to experience widely different diurnal temperatures, sometimes with frost.

Propagation

Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Lupinus+bogotensis>

Pollinators

Insects

References

  1. [1]IUCN Red List of Threatened Species — http://www.iucnredlist.org/ ↩︎A list of plants under threat and facing possible extinction, usually with brief details of the threats and information on habitat.
  2. [2]Determinación del Potencial Nutritivo y Funcional de Galletas y Compotas Preparados a Base de Chocho (Lupinus bogote — Sanaguano H.; Bayas F.; Tigre A.; Pomagualli D. · 2013 · ISBN 1390-7778 ↩︎
  3. [3]An ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants commercialized in the markets of La Paz and El Alto, Bolivia — M.J. Macía et al · 2005 ↩︎