Red bean is a common name for several plants and may refer to:

• Adzuki bean (Vigna angularis), commonly used in Japanese, Korean, and Chinese cuisine, particularly as red bean paste
• Kidney bean, red variety of Phaseolus vulgaris, commonly used in Indian and North American cuisine, such as chili con carne.
• Vigna umbellata, a species of legume whose seeds are red
• Dysoxylum rufum, a rainforest tree in the Mahogany family
• Didymocheton muelleri, a rainforest tree

See also[edit]

• Red Beans (album), a 1976 album by Jimmy McGrif
• Pinto bean – Variety of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)