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Post by kyredneck on Feb 10, 2015 9:10:14 GMT -5
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Post by kyredneck on Feb 11, 2015 12:05:05 GMT -5
Hi iva ! Greasy beans lack hairs on the outside of the pods, so the pods look slick and shiny ("greasy"). Cut-short beans pack tightly in the pod as they grow. The ends of each seed are compressed so they are blunt-ended ("cut-short") compared to normal bean seeds. And yes, there also are greasy, cut-short beans that have both characteristics. These beans are highly valued in Appalachia (US) and have been passed down in families for generations.
Everything reed wrote is spot on.....
Sorry Karl, I confused you with reed (you all DO look a lot alike, you know...  ) |
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Post by iva on Feb 14, 2015 4:16:37 GMT -5
Thanks all for your kind responses. I get it now, greasy beans are what we call MASLENEC (butter bean) around here. But the only greasy beans we can get here are late varieties that don't do well in hot summers, so many times it is hard to get seeds to ripen... And cut short are like 'crowders' in south peas, I guess in shape and growth pattern... Thanks again for clearing it up for me! |
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Post by reed on Feb 14, 2015 5:27:30 GMT -5
We call big flat Lima beans "butter beans". At least at my house.
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Post by iva on Feb 16, 2015 5:02:17 GMT -5
I was only translating literally from Slovenian to English, and it could also be 'greasy bean', but MASLO (>MASLENEC) translates into butter so I used that word combination. Lima beans are not well known or common here, and are only now starting to appear in some specialty seed packs, so they will not be called butter beans for sure, whereas greasy beans have been around for ages and are called 'butter' beans here. It can be confusing sometimes with these translations |
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