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A new bean arrived today, Elortza. Comes from the village of Elortza in Spain's Basque Autonomous Community. It's a bush dry bean.

So Guy Dirix post this information on facebook about this bean with the upside down exclamation mark. It is a bush bean from Cusco-Peru...

Sometimes I think patterns and shadings of color in beans just might be endless.

I've never seen beans with an upside-down exclamation point before!

Some bean mail today from Artorious. So his package went through the USDA inspection routine and was forwarded to me. Artorious thought...

A new bean I purchased, originally bought from a market in Malawi; it goes by the name 'Malawi Mix'. We'll see what's actually in the...

I'm going to guess that the seeds with flattened ends will repeat. You might have two slightly different strains of this bean. Rounded...

Oh, you don't have? But everybody should have some! As I see, @Triffid has already begun to take care of this problem. Very good! If you...

Rosso del Cadore from Veneto, Italy. One of the earliest pole beans I have ever had. I picked my first dry pods in late July/early...

Red Eagle, Red Sport, Crow River Black.

This is my Hewitt shortly after harvesting in 2022 so I can confirm the darker colouring.

The Zazza seeds I sowed looked similar to the ones in the picture. The colors were already oxidized. A year without a fridge or freezer...

So my Uruguay bean trade is underway! We both finally figured out what we wanted from each other and I wound up requesting seeds I...

@flowerbug I took a photo of the older seeds in lieu of my poor description - a picture is worth a thousand words! ;) They're definitely...

What a pretty bean. I'm writing it down in my notebook.