Dried beans, also known as sword beans, wild sword bean vines, Chinese yam beans, and knife beans.The bean belongs to the legume family and is named "sword bean" because of its shape resembling a knife."Sword bean"..It is also called "sword bean" due to its shape resembling someone holding a sword horizontally."Sword bean"..Main varieties include climbing and dwarf types.The climbing type is also known as "big sword bean", "Chinese sword bean", "guardian sword bean", "horse sword bean", "scabbard bean", and "knife leaf bean"."Big sword bean"."Chinese sword bean"."Guardian sword bean"."Horse sword bean"."Scabbard bean"."Knife leaf bean".Marrow Bean"It is a one-year-old herb, with stem climbing, compound leaves, three small leaflets each, and flower axes emerging from the axils of the leaves, bearing several large butterfly-shaped flowers, purple in color."Swordcase Bean"""Knife Handle Bean""Chop garlic and cubeb berries..Annual herb, climbing stem, compound leaf with three small leaves, axillary flower axis emerging from the leaf axils bearing several large butterfly-like flowers in purple.