Re: String bean = pole bean?
- Subject: Re: [GWL] String bean = pole bean?
- From: H*@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 20:29:38 EST
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Well, I couldn't resist so I've been delving. In the scientific literature and registrations for pesticide use (sorry it was one of the available databases) they are both the same genus and species. I think it's as simple as pole beans are intended to...grow on or up a pole. String beans are the long narrow beans that...as noted...use to have a stringy texture...as the strings used to get caught between your teeth. But then pole beans will grow on a string, and string beans can be stringed to a pole. Guess this is why some guy once came up with a method of using genus and species...pretty much avoids this problem...lol
Andrew Messinger
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