Phaseolus multiflorus
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Read about Phaseolus multiflorus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Phaseolus multiflorus, Willd. Scarlet Runner Bean. Dutch Case-knife Bean (a white variety). Figs. 2892-2894. Root thickened and tuberous, sometimes perennial in the S., but perishing in the N: plant tall, twining and slender, minutely pubescent: lvs. large; lfts. thin, terminal lfts. often 3 in. or more wide, rhombic-ovate and acute, scabrous-pubescent: fls. rather large and showy, on long naked racemes, in the Scarlet Runner type red, in the Dutch Case-Knife white, the keel not distinctly projecting: pods long (3-6 in.), with curved slender tip; seeds large (4/5 in. long or longer), much flattened or nearly cylindrical, less than twice as long as broad, not usually reniform, no conspicuous lines radiating from the hilum, color red or mahogany, and black in the Scarlet Runner, white in many other forms: primary lvs. ovate or cordate, the base deeply auriculate, petioles 1 in. or more long. S. Amer, or Mex., but now widely spread.—The Scarlet Runner form is popular as an ornamental vine for arbors and to cover windows, sometimes being known as Flowering Bean or Painted Lady. The Dutch Case- Knife is a vegetable-garden plant, grown for its beans. Various forms of the plant are grown for food by the Mexicans and these sometimes appear in our western country. Here belong the Aztec or prehistoric beans, now grown sparingly in N. Ariz., which are said to have originated from seed found in caches among the prehistoric cliff-dwellings. Melde's Perennial and Irvine's Hybrid beans are apparently white-fld. forms. The color of fl. and seed seems always to be associated in this species. A dwarf or bush form, probably of P. muliiflorus, was intro. a few years ago as Bartelde's Dwarf Lima (see Bull. No. 87, Cornell Exp. Sta.). It is not unlikely that more than one species is passing as P. multiflorus, some of the Mexican forms being imperfectly understood. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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