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  • From: "Karen Sutherland" <ksutherland AT hampshire.edu>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] BEAN ID help needed
  • Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 16:48:51 -0400

I am growing an amazing “pole” bean that I found amongst some abandoned
stuff from a German family leaving Dominica. It produces huge quantities
of delicious beans (shell or dry; the pod is inedibly tough) that set in
groups of 6 or more pods. The leaves are the usual 3 lobed shape, but are
long and thin, kinda like a Chinese Long Bean type. Vine growth is rampant.
The pods are about 3-4 inches long, green, slightly crescent shaped with a
sharp point on one end. Each pod usually has about 3 or 4 seeds. The bean
seeds themselves, when dry, are about the size of a Great Northern seed, are
white with black flecks along the convex surface to around just over the top
and a solid black circle around the eye. The flavor has the slightest sour
note, really wonderful cooked fresh or dried, by itself or in a mix. Any
one know what it might be or where I can find some pictures of uncommon (to
U.S.) beans or another way of helping me identify it?

Thank you all for your help on this and so much else that you've shared on
this list.

All best wishes,

Karen Sutherland
Roots Farm
Organic Produce
Fruits, Roots, Vegetables & Herbs
Cockrane, Dominica
 






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