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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Rhubarb Thrasher on May 23, 2008, 20:36:50

Title: Gigandes and Confused
Post by: Rhubarb Thrasher on May 23, 2008, 20:36:50
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 (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?
Title: Re: Gigandes and Confused
Post by: Baccy Man on May 23, 2008, 21:15:50
I thought gigande/gigante was used to describe both a very large lima bean (butter bean), and a large white-seeded runner bean.
Title: Re: Gigandes and Confused
Post by: Rhubarb Thrasher on May 23, 2008, 21:33:20
that's what it looks like. and the big white Franchi bean is a gigande type runner
Title: Re: Gigandes and Confused
Post by: ruud on May 23, 2008, 22:00:12
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.
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