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Beans, danger of cross pollination?
On Apr 6, 8:27*pm, Stewart Robert Hinsley
wrote: In message , Mike Lyle writes Red kidney bean beans are smaller than runner bean beans, so they must be a different variety at least. I find it all rather confusing. Even the garden centre has at least thirty different types / varieties of "beans" for sale - and from what someone said in another post broad beans and runner beans aren't even related! The word "bean" seems to be somewhat generic in usage and confusing for an old has-bean like me. LOL. I think most (all?) of them are just cultivars of Phaseolus vulgaris: they come in a wide range of forms. Not the broad bean clan, of course: they're Vicia faba. Many beans are varieties of Phaseolus vulgaris. The seeds of this are toxic if not cooked (sufficiently; apparently slow cookers increase the toxicity). Runner beans are Phaseolus coccineus, of which Wikipedia says "Runner beans contain traces of the poisonous lectin, Phytohaemagglutinin, found in common beans and hence must be thoroughly cooked before consumption." Butter beans are Phaseolus lunatus. Mung bean is Vigna radiata. Hyacinth beans, another species which requires prolonged boiling, is Lablab purpureus. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley "can broad beans be eaten as green beans ie the pods ?" As has been said the answer is YES. My mother and I never liked Broad beans but we would alwats sow some in the Autumn to pich when they were finger size and slice like runner beans, a bit wooley, but when you have had no green beans (Other than salted) since late October they tasted good, and were finished by the time runner beans started. People say to pick the tops of the plants out to prevent Black fly, You can cook the tops and eat them, they also taste of beans. |
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