FREE: 30 Willow Leaf Pole Lima Bean Seeds

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Willow Leaf
95 days — An attractive old pole-type variety that will reach eight to ten feet and has some tolerance to drought and heat. The leaves are linear-lancelolate and narrow which explains the name. Very prolific.

Reportedly a sport of 'Sieva' beans and released by W. Atlee Burpee in 1891. They described it as being prolific and differing from all other beans known. They wrote, ". . . . its beautiful deeply cut foliage, aptly described in its name — WILLOW LEAF; by reason of its light, graceful foliage, it is so handsome that many gardeners have pronounced it worthy of growing as an ornamental climbing vine. The leaves are trifoliate, being narrow, not more than half an inch at the broadest part and tapering to a point some five inches. As the leaves are of a rich, dark green color, all pendent, it presents an attractive front. The beauty of the foliage, although such an attraction, is overlooked as soon as it begins to bloom, by reason of the profusion of blossoms, which is astonishing; the vines are full of bloom and later become loaded with pods. The vines blossom and bear pods of uniform size from bottom to top."