Beans - Specimen details

Beans - Specimen details

Back to search results

Catalogue Number: 64410

No Image
Plant Name 57.01 LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE Phaseolus acutifolius Entry Book Number 15.1986.1
Artefact Name Beans Vernacular Name
Iso Country United States TDWG Region United States
Parts Held Beans Geography Description US America, Arizona, Papago Reservation
Uses BeansUse: User: Man TDWG use
Storage Bottles, boxes etc Related Items
Donor Wickens GE (By purchase) Donor No
Donor Date 15/06/1983 Donor Notes
Collector Collector No
Collection Notes Collection Date
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Label source: Like butter beans. The Papago bean has been grown for hundreds of years by the native people of the Sonoran Desert. In fact, the Papagos have been some of the best farmers of beans that the world has ever known, growing them in the hot su, mmer heat with the flash flood water after desert rains. They are grown today at Santa Cruz Farm on the Papago reservation. They are a good staple product with protein, energy, vitamins and minerals all in one food. They are both white and brown and ca, n be prepared in a vaiety of ways. (Recipes included in pot)

Simple search   |   Amend search