(Parkia speciosa) sataw/สะตอ

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(Parkia speciosa) commonly called Bitter bean, twisted cluster bean, Stink bean, or Sataw/สะตอ, Petai, Stink Bean, Nitta Tree, Nyiring, 臭豆, 葱豆. The pods contains edible beans with bright green seeds a pungent smell like that of a White Leadtree beans. It has a pungent oder similarly to that of a dry shiitake mushroom that most westerners would probably familiar with.





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