French beans
etc

Hallo,
weiß jemand was für Bohnen mit dem Begriff Prinzessbohnen gemeint ist? Sind es Stangenbohnen, Buschbohnen?

Bei Prinzessbohnen handelt es sich um eine Buschbohnensorte.
Das ist eine besonders zarte,fadenlose Bohne,die gut schmeckt und als Gemüse,wie auch als Salatbohne zu verwenden ist.
Gruss Willi

http://www.hausgarten.net/gartenforum/obst-und-gemuesegarten...

Bush Beans stand erect without support. They yield well and require the least amount of work. Green bush beans were formerly called "string beans" because fiber developed along the seams of the pods. Plant breeders have reduced these fibers through selection and green beans are now referred to as "snap beans."

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/veggies/beans1.html
With most beans, you eat only the seeds, usually after they've been dried. But you can eat snap beans pod and all. Until a century ago, the pods had tough strings that cooks had to pull off before cooking (hence the name "string beans") but the snap beans you'll find in markets today are almost all stringless.

http://www.foodsubs.com/Snapbean.html


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Here is what Johannsen did. He experimented with beans, specifically Princess beans, Phaseolus vulgaris nana. Recall that, like peas, beans are naturally self-fertilizing. He began his series of experiments in 1900 by planting a number of bean seeds from an 8 kg lot, always permitting self-fertilization. In 1901 he harvested 287 plants from selected seeds of very different sizes and known weights.

http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/terry/Classes/s260.1998/W...

Diverse Bohnensorten, Fotos von Jürgen Klapprott (siehe Link "uni-bamberg") :
Phasaeolus vulgaris nana (Buschbohne), Phasaeolus coccineus (Feuerbohne), Phasaeolus vulgaris (Stangenbohne), Vicia faber (Saubohnen)

http://www.wedaulink.de/natur/natur_2004.htm


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In this American to British dictionary, we discover that "snap bean" is American English for a green bean grown for its pods (as opposed to shell bean).

http://www.peak.org/~jeremy/dictionary/dictionary/dictionary...