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Thanks, journey11. I have an ID problem, this year I bought a number of striped beans, in my avatar photo, but didn't do a good enough job when planting to be sure what these are. The pod and 2 mystery small beans are this same bean. They were very late and slow to grow, I barely managed to save seed. They were 5-6' vines, the pods were flat with a purple tinge, see the filled out pod photo, then turned dark purple when mature. The seeds were quite magenta when shelled but have darkened. On the left was previously my choice for what was Rio Zape, also a 5-6' vine but much earlier to bear and mature. The later beans on the right look closer to the photo on Bean Collector's site- http://www.abeancollectorswindow.com/beanpage5.html but it is supposed to be a bush bean. My bush beans got mostly eaten by rabbits this year so I didn't get any beans resembling Rio Zape or another striped bush bean I did not find any beans growing from, Tiger Eye, both from Azure Dandelion.
Can I assume the later beans in the right are Rio Zape though not bush? The only striped bean I grew last year was Jembo Polish and it is much larger, wide pod, white, etc.
Nancy
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Can I assume the later beans in the right are Rio Zape though not bush? The only striped bean I grew last year was Jembo Polish and it is much larger, wide pod, white, etc.
Nancy
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