Gigandes and Confused

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

I'm confused. According to the EU, Greek gigantes beans are RUNNER beans

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32003R1428:EN:HTML

Jeannine sent me some gigandes beans from America, which look exactly the same, and now they've germinated, they're NOT runner beans. Jeannine had these ones down as LIMA beans I think

so for the people here growing gigantes/gigandes - are your's Runners or something else?

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

[Baccy Man]

I thought gigande/gigante was used to describe both a very large lima bean (butter bean), and a large white-seeded runner bean.

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

that's what it looks like. and the big white Franchi bean is a gigande type runner

[ruud]

The european one is a runner,that is the only thing i know about them.I have growing the greek gigandes and that is a runner.