Dry Beans, Pole 'Purple Kingsessing' / 'Lenape Blue Bread B'
- Product number: 045335
- Origin: United States
- Latin: Common bean
A bean with a beautiful history!
The climbing plants bloom beautifully with lilac flowers, after which striking deep purple bean pods appear. This bean is especially prized for its beautiful seeds and rich flavor as a dry bean. In the past, it was even used to bake bread. Enjoy harvesting the deep purple to almost black beans.
As early as around 1650, the Lenape people (Native Americans) cultivated these beans around Kingsessing, at that time an important trading settlement at the end of the Great Minquas Path. The name is derived from the Lenape word Chingsessing, which loosely translated means: "the place of the meadow". Today, this area forms a district in southwest Philadelphia.
In our search for the most original beans, this old heritage variety is a valuable addition to our assortment.
Names:
- Latin: Phaseolus vulgaris
- Dutch: Dry beans, Pole 'Purple Kingsessing' / 'Lenape Blue Bread Beans'
- Also known as: Drywinners
- English: Dry Shelling Beans
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- Flower colour: Purple
- Origin: United States
- Average growth height: More than 200 cm
- Annual or perennial: Annual
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- Winter hardy: Not frost hardy
- Ease of cultivation: Easy
- Latin: Common bean
- Dutch: Dry Beans, Pole 'Purple Kingsessing' / 'Lenape Blue Bread Beans'
- Also known as: Dry extractors
- English: Dry Shelling Beans
