VEGETABLES / MISC-LEGUMES
Organic Listing
Pole (twining stems to 4 m). Perennial, overwinters via tuberous root system. Reported resistant to -35° C (-30° F). Best used dry. Known as wild kidney bean, thicket bean, bean-vine. Herbaceous native to North America with range across eastern temperate United States to southeast Canada. Flowering July-September (small bluish purple flowers). Fruiting August-October. Beans are tiny (4-8 mm), dull brown. Pods (tan when dry) can shatter on their own, so collect before fully dry.
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