Pretzel Bean

Climbing vines with beautiful purple flowers and unusual, curling pretzel-shaped pods, 1-4 pods at the end of tall stalk with 6-8 seeds per pod. As a dry bean, similar in appearance and use to black-eyed pea. As unique ornamental, can be dried and used in bouquets. First documented in Greece in 300 B.C., further domesticated in West Africa, and introduced commercially in the U.S. in 1893 by W. Atlee Burpee.