Talk:Common bean
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What is a bean?
Or are they a "pulse" instead of a fruit? timl
I think we are talking about two different classification schemes, like orange versus warm. "Vegetable" is a rather loose term referring to plant products which are prepared as food in rather standard ways and are generally not very sweet. "Fruit" is a botanically precise term referring to a seed-bearing plant structure derived from the pistils and which may or may not involve other parts of the flower, and may not even be edible. Beans are both a vegetable and a fruit (and a pulse). Just my 2 cents. WormRunner | Talk 00:15, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)
What is a haricot?
The article currently implies that haricot is a synonym of common bean, while baked beans implies that the former is a variety of the latter. Does anyone know better than I do?
Thanks, Pekinensis 21:13, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Haricot is another variety of Phaseolus vulgaris --nixie 21:36, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Phaseolus vulgaris domesticated independently in Eurasia?
Is there published evidence of this? - WormRunner | Talk 05:12, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
- I have removed it for the moment. Such a surprising and symbolically important fact deserves references and further explication. — Pekinensis 15:17, 16 May 2005 (UTC)