• climbing French bean Canadian
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French bean

Canadian

This bean originated, as its name suggests, in Canada. It was served to a visiting family who were so impressed by its tenderness and flavour that they asked about its origins and were taken to see an old man who gave them some of the beans. Our donor describes them as having "a mild runner bean flavour but completely stringless and with a positively creamy texture". It is a late variety producing attractive white flowers tinged with pale lilac, followed by flat, green pods on vigorous (2-3m) vines. The beans themselves are beautiful, light buff with olive green swirls.
  • Number of seeds
    10
  • Growth habit
    Climbing

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