Details for: W6 50380, Phaseolus vulgaris L., Blue Shakamaxon


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Phaseolus vulgaris L.
Top Name:
Blue Shakamaxon
Origin:
Donated – Kentucky, United States
Received by NPGS:
20 Nov 2015
Improvement Status:
Cultivated material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Phaseolus vulgaris L.
Top Name:
Blue Shakamaxon
Origin:
Donated – Kentucky, United States
Received by NPGS:
20 Nov 2015
Improvement Status:
Cultivated material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
Source History
Donated

Kentucky, United States

Donor(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
Blue Shakamaxon
Type: Donor identifier

W6 50380
Type: Site identifier
Group: W6
Western Regional Plant Introduction (W6) accession numbers
USDA-ARS, WRPIS

Narrative
Rather early bean. Vines grow 6-7' with rose pink flowers. From Lenape Indians of Delaware. This variety is traditional to the Lenape tribe, who carried it along as colonization and violence pushed the Lenape further and further west. The variety is first recorded as appearing in communities near Philadelphia. Beans are a bright navy blue when young and the mature cutshort is blue-black. When the pods dry, they turn a purple-blue color. The bean was cooked in ?black mush,? a type of early American polenta made with blue or black cornmeal. The oldest strains of Blue Shackamaxon were grown by Pennsylvania farmers more as curiosities than as table vegetables. For this reason, the bean never underwent concerted breeding improvements.
Phaseolus vulgaris L.
Genus:
Phaseolus
Section:
Phaseolus
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Tribe:
Phaseoleae
Subtribe:
Phaseolinae
Nomen number:

27632
Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 2:723. 1753
Verified:
08/19/2010 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Phaseolus vulgaris L. var. aborigineus (Burkart) Baudet (118 active accession[s])
Phaseolus vulgaris L. var. vulgaris (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Phaseolus nanus L.
Phaseolus vulgaris L. var. mexicanus Freytag, nom. inval.

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishbean  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Italianfragiolo  2International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
Japanese Rōmajiingen-mame  2Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
Swedishböna  2Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Chinesecai dou  2Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Transcribed Koreandeonggulgangnamkong  2Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea.
Transcribed Koreangangnamkong  2Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea.
Transcribed Koreanjuldangkong  2Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:117.
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