Sitakame Morado

Phaseolus vulgaris.  Tarahumara Sitakame. Small, rounded, deep purple bean from the Sierra Madre in southern Chihuahua. Beans look like purple pearls. Late-maturing pole bean when grown at the Conservation Farm. From our Seed Bank Collection.

• Origin: high desert
• Pole bean
• Day length sensitive; may not have time to produce well in northern climates.  Plant with monsoon rains in the low desert.
• Approx. 15g/50 seeds per packet.