Chinese / Thai Red Yard Long / Noodle Beans - Heirloom Vegetable - Vigna sesquipedalis - 5 Seeds heirloom fruit Panola continues to outperform standard

Panola continues to outperform standard medium-flowered varieties

Commonly known as the Chinese Magnolia Vine

attractive mauve flowers

between 10 and 25 m tall

but as the stems mature they become thicker

Chinese / Thai Red Yard Long / Noodle Beans - Heirloom Vegetable - Vigna sesquipedalis - 5 Seeds heirloom fruit Panola continues to outperform standardDespite the name, the pods are actually only about half a yard long; the subspecies name sesquipedalis (one and a half foot long) is a rather exact approximation of the pods' length. This plant is of a different genus than the common bean. It is a vigorous climbing annual vine. A variety of the cowpea, it is grown primarily for its strikingly long (35 75 cm) immature pods and has uses very similar to that of a green bean. The pods, which begin to form