Chinese / Thai Green Yard Long Beans - Heirloom Vegetable - Vigna sesquipedalis - 5 Seeds Indigenous Bulb ornamental

ornamental

attractive marbled gourd-like fruits

branched inflorescence of dull red flowers with whitish bloom in Winter

If growing guidance is followed correctly a germination percentage of 50% can be expected

The leaves are pinnate with 531 leaflets and the terminal leaflet present

Chinese / Thai Green Yard Long Beans - Heirloom Vegetable - Vigna sesquipedalis - 5 Seeds Indigenous Bulb ornamentalDespite the name, the pods are actually only about half a yard long; the subspecies name sesquipedalis (one and a half foot long) is a rather exact approximation of the pods' length. This plant is of a different genus than the common bean. It is a vigorous climbing annual vine. A variety of the cowpea, it is grown primarily for its strikingly long (35 75 cm) immature pods and has uses very similar to that of a green bean. The pods, which begin to form