Chinese / Thai Green Yard Long Beans - Heirloom Vegetable - Vigna sesquipedalis - 5 Seeds Soil Enhancers Spectacular large mauve / purple

Spectacular large mauve / purple flowers

Tolerates heavy winds and copes well in coastal areas

"Cornflower" is also erroneously used for chicory

sport close-packed clusters of brightest fluorescent pink

Some species are known by the name century plant

Chinese / Thai Green Yard Long Beans - Heirloom Vegetable - Vigna sesquipedalis - 5 Seeds Soil Enhancers Spectacular large mauve / purpleDespite the name, the pods are actually only about half a yard long; the subspecies name sesquipedalis (one and a half foot long) is a rather exact approximation of the pods' length. This plant is of a different genus than the common bean. It is a vigorous climbing annual vine. A variety of the cowpea, it is grown primarily for its strikingly long (35 75 cm) immature pods and has uses very similar to that of a green bean. The pods, which begin to form