On 15 Nov, 21:58, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:
In article ,Dave Hill writes:

|
| Runner beans and Kidney beans are the same thing just that Kidney bean
| refers to just the seed whilst runner bean /green beans refer to the
| immature pods.

Er, no. Runner beans are Phaseolus coccineus, and dwarf / French /
kidney / etc. beans are Phaseolus vulgaris. Different species.

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.


I bow to your superior knowledge,
BUT in Wales runner beans are refered to as Kidney beans, and my
mother was Welsh so thats what I knew them as, but being brought up in
Sussex I also knew runner beans as stick beans, string beans and
runners

interesting article on beans
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidney_bean

David Hill

On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:02:13 -0800 (PST), Dave Hill
wrote:

I bow to your superior knowledge,
BUT in Wales runner beans are refered to as Kidney beans, and my
mother was Welsh so thats what I knew them as, but being brought up in
Sussex I also knew runner beans as stick beans, string beans and
runners

And Bob Flowerdew always calls them "running beans", which I have
never heard anywhere else. Is it a Norfolk speciality?

Pam in Bristol