MULTILINGUAL MULTISCRIPT PLANT NAME DATABASE

A SAMPLING OF BROADBEAN CULTIVARS

Seeds kindly donated by Diggers Seeds, Australian Seed Savers Network and Heritage Seed Curators Australia

 

Vicia faba L.

Only dried seeds shown (fresh seeds have different colours).
Scales are in mm.

 

7 "typical" seeds representing 6 cultivars of broadbean and 1 doubtful (top-right)
showing relative sizes. Colouring less accurate than below. Below are shots of each identified cultivar.

 


Red-flowered, green-seeded 'Crimson-Flowered'

White-flowered, long-podded 'Aquadulce Claudia'

 

Flower of 'Crimson-Flowered'

'Aquadulce' seed colour changes over time, the older the darker


White-flowered, red-seeded 'Scarlet Cambridge'

White-flowered, green-seeded 'Peruvian Emerald'

White-flowered 'Purple-Seeded'

'Peruvian Emerald' or 'Peruvian Emerald' x 'Purple Seeded' ?

White-flowered 'Portuguese Large-Seeded'

 

 

Names are linked to nomenclature

 

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