Bean seed ID help
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These bean seeds escaped their packet, any idea what they could be.  Its not one I've grown before so it might be a seed swap one.   They are predominantly white/creamy coloured with black mottling around their 'belly button', I've no idea what that bit is called  Smile

   
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(31-03-2023, 12:58 PM)JJB Wrote: These bean seeds escaped their packet, any idea what they could be.  Its not one I've grown before so it might be a seed swap one.   They are predominantly white/creamy coloured with black mottling around their 'belly button', I've no idea what that bit is called  Smile
Cow peas/black eye beans?
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(31-03-2023, 01:08 PM)Admin Wrote:
(31-03-2023, 12:58 PM)JJB Wrote: These bean seeds escaped their packet, any idea what they could be.  Its not one I've grown before so it might be a seed swap one.   They are predominantly white/creamy coloured with black mottling around their 'belly button', I've no idea what that bit is called  Smile
Cow peas/black eye beans?

Thanks Boss, but looking at web pictures of those two those beans appear stumpier and the black more defined rather than splotchy like mine. I expect I'll just sow them to see what they turn into and be none the wiser.
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Soldier beans or Nun's belly Button?
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Yes, they look like Nun's Belly Button.
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Agreed except the colouration is definitely black not brownish and I've never bought them, anyone recall whether they've been included in the swaps. I think I shall have to grow them just out if curiosity.
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Lidl sold a bean called Wachs beste von Allen https://deaflora.de/Shop/Bohnen/Buschboh...Allen.html
I had some in last year's random swap. Maybe you bought them in Lidl? Supposed to have yellow pods.
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(31-03-2023, 04:58 PM)Veggie Wrote: Lidl sold a bean called Wachs beste von Allen https://deaflora.de/Shop/Bohnen/Buschboh...Allen.html
I had some in last year's random swap. Maybe you bought them in Lidl? Supposed to have yellow pods.

Looks promising but don't recollect buying them.  I wonder if they're yin yng that didn't make enough black colouration. Or even cherokee trail of tears gone white, they're about the same size. No matter they're a bean , they'll get sown  or eaten  Smile
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Identified my beans!

They're a yellow DFB from Lidl 'Wachs Beste von Allen' they'd been bunged in the drawer upside down and were pouring out. I think it translates as Brittle Wax.
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