Photos and drawings of Legume flowers

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

Pentax are really nice cameras! i got my dad's 30+ year old one when he moved up to his latest Cannon EOS. years before i got his camera i had an Olympus that could use the same K mounted lenses as his and i was always grabbing his telephoto and macro lens to get beautiful close ups like those! ah, but the day of developing film has come to a close and now everyone can quickly look at what they took and decide to delete it if it wasn't to their standards of quality. to get those nice pics today you either need to have an expensive camera with the right lenses/zoom, a very steady hand, or a subject that is just going to stay still long enough for the camera to stay focused makes me wish i had the money for that camera!

 

[897tgigvib]

Finally able to upload one I had that twitter virus, but it's cleared up now. uploading images was buggy. Luckily it was aimed at cellphones and did easily quarantined stuff to laptops.

 

[897tgigvib]

I was reading where it said Phaseolus the Genus has up to 51 species in it, and many are wild. It also said vulgaris the species has 5 subspecies in it. It was saying that those 5 subspecies fit into 2 groups of subspecies, and that all the vulgaris subspecies were originally a single wild population several million years ago in Peru and Ecuador.

One group of them travelled northward up central America, and the other group travelled southward to the south part of Argentina. Each of those 2 groups then further diverged so there are now the 5 subspecies. The subspecies of Beans will cross, but with varying degrees of difficulty.

Knowing which subspecies each of your bean varieties belongs to can be helpful if you either want to try to ensure yoou get no crosses, or if you are hoping for crosses.

I do not know which subspecies very many of my beans belong to, but I understand that my Eye of the Tiger variety was from Chile making it a subspecies of the southern group.

Generally the Beans of the southern group tend to be larger.

I have noticed some of the ploant and pod forms come in groups. Turtle beans and white rice bean plant architecture is a firm solid determinate bush, open.

Kidney and sangre de torro have a large leathery leaf, and a dense bush structure.
I suspect the tan seeded purple poddeds are their own subspecies.
I do wonder if the flor de mayos and the cutshorts comprise their own subspecies
And there are the big fat seeded Hidatsa Shield and Golden Lima types with those strong wide pods and almost hard points so curled at the ends.
I suspect there are a couple others too, but I'm starting to count more than 5 subspecies.

 

[desertlady]

http://www.theeasygarden.com/forum/uploads/7236_dsc_0162.jpg
scarlett runner beans

http://www.theeasygarden.com/forum/uploads/7236_dsc_0154.jpg
purple hyacynth bean

http://www.theeasygarden.com/forum/uploads/7236_dsc_0033.jpg

Rattlesnake (?) better of the bean, but the flower is there too

http://www.theeasygarden.com/forum/uploads/7236_dsc_0828.jpg
I forget

I have taken more, but these are all that are currently in my uploads (such limited space)

pretty pictures!

 

[897tgigvib]

Dow Purple Podded Pole

These are the quickest and hardiest growing pole bean I guess there is.