Check this thing out:
That is a standard 12" ruler and 8.5x11" piece of paper. I have never seen anything like it, not that my gardening experience is all that vast... DH's gma, on the other hand, has many years experience and is still perplexed. She actually wondered if it some how crossed with the long neck gourds that are planted near it (the vines are all intertwined). The only thing I was able to find that even remotely looked similar was a fava bean, but then I cracked it open and this is what the inside looks like (OK, thought the pic was better... my 3 year old was helping :lol: ). Not the large, plump beans you would expect to see for a fava.
The seedlings came from a barber shop customer - he just said here's a gourd and a bean plant. That was it. DH's gpa is supposed to ask him what type they are next time he sees him. The plant has purple-pink colored blossoms and the ants LOVE them if that adds anything to it. Not many bean pods for the amount of blossoms.
It doesn't smell like a bean, it almost has a faint onion scent to it.
That is a standard 12" ruler and 8.5x11" piece of paper. I have never seen anything like it, not that my gardening experience is all that vast... DH's gma, on the other hand, has many years experience and is still perplexed. She actually wondered if it some how crossed with the long neck gourds that are planted near it (the vines are all intertwined). The only thing I was able to find that even remotely looked similar was a fava bean, but then I cracked it open and this is what the inside looks like (OK, thought the pic was better... my 3 year old was helping :lol: ). Not the large, plump beans you would expect to see for a fava.
The seedlings came from a barber shop customer - he just said here's a gourd and a bean plant. That was it. DH's gpa is supposed to ask him what type they are next time he sees him. The plant has purple-pink colored blossoms and the ants LOVE them if that adds anything to it. Not many bean pods for the amount of blossoms.
It doesn't smell like a bean, it almost has a faint onion scent to it.
