Description
Also known as Malachite Beans, this 6 foot tall East African pole bean makes crisp tan pods with 5-6 beautiful dry beans that shine like a polished malachite stone (some more blueish, some more olive). In his book Heirloom Vegetable Gardening, Dr. William Woys Weaver notes that this variety was developed at the Royal Agricultural Academy in Hohenheim, Germany and found its way to German Colonies in Africa in the 1800s. Throughout East African highlands and beyond, farmers steward a particularly large diversity of common beans, which were first domesticated in Mesoamerica and the Andes, and which they have adapted to their places and tastes. This one is particularly beautiful!
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