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La Senorita's Haba Broad bean
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Yes hopefully they will do well here.
I know, you spend much of your life thinking they are just green seeds with black and white pretty flowers and then you discover different flower colours and seed colours, then pattens and splodges, hangdowns - hangups. Gotta love them! I think coloured spirals next!
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Broad beans originated in the 'old world', didn't they? And were presumably brought to South America by the Spanish/Portuguese? And not sooner than the 16th century and quite likely a century later than that. Either these unusual seed colours were in existence in Southern Europe (are they still?) or they have developed very rapidly indeed. I wonder whether our landrace broadies will show unusual seed coat colours in time. The flowers can have spectacular colours, like we have seen from your photos Jayb.
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Yes, an old world crop. The only patterned beans I've come across are all New World selections, perhaps colour and patterns were more desirable, whereas Europe bred away from them. Very interesting to wonder at what genes maybe hidden underneath different varieties. The yellow seeded broadies I have are called 'Aztec' which sort of links them to the New World too. I think they are getting a bit mixed up as some are now yellowy and some a more striking yellow green.
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