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Lablab/Dolichos/Hyacinth beans have the most amazing seeds...flat black with a white edge..........and I have a few.  .
Has anyone grown them - or eaten them?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lablab
https://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/sites/w...Lablab.pdf
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They certainly look interesting, but I'm not sure I'd bother. Never heard of them before.
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Like JJB I’ve never heard of them before. They have got my attention. I like the look of them. Especially the purple ones
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They look very pretty, but I prefer to steer clear of anything containing hydrogen cyanide!
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They're like "ordinary" beans - we know not to eat beans raw and to make sure they're boiled before eating them so lablabs are much the same.
If I can grow some, it'll be for the flowers first, maybe eat the pods when I know a lot more about them.
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The article said "boiled well with several changes of water", which sounds like a lot of faff to me - at least red kidney beans only need boiling for ten minutes!
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Many everyday fruit in the Rosaceae family, such as apples, apricots, bitter almonds, cherries, crab apples, damsons, hawthorn berries, pears, peaches, plums and sloes, have stones that contain small amounts of amygdalin, and other cyanohydrins like mandelonitrile.
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So many common foods have components that can be used medicinally or have side effects. Fortunately I don't have an ology in toxics or I would be worrying about everything I ate - like the rhubarb (oxalic acid) I've just eaten for breakfast. 
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Finally planted the Lablab seedlings - the purple leaved things.
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(27-06-2021, 04:10 PM)Veggie Wrote: Finally planted the Lablab seedlings - the purple leaved things.
They are rather striking. I hope you will post some pictures when they are fully grown
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