SC - Period green beans

[RANDALL DIAMOND]

> TerryD at Health.State.OK.US writes:
>
> << Boil green beans (This probably refers to something like fava beans.
> These
>  are no string beans.  String beans are a New World food.) >>
>
> Correct about the phaseolus green beans. <clipped>
>
> Ras

Could the asparagus pea or winged lotus (Tetragonorobus purpureus) have been
what was described as 'green beans?  You eat them pod and all and they do
look
more like beans than peapods.  It is listed in Gerard as the four square
velvet pea.

Akim
"No glory comes without pain"

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