Posted by Trans_It in Growstuff Feedback & Support on 2014-09-09 22:44:30 UTC and edited at 2019-06-03 08:53:24 UTC
PermalinkCouldn't find French Beans of any kind and would like to request them to be added. Went to request page, found lots of comments but where it says 'request them here', there was no link. Am new to the site, so if I double on something, please forgive.
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I think for now just put it in as "beans" with the variety in the notes. Right now, the squash family is the only thing where we've got a bunch of varieties mapped.
Oh, I see your confusion! The comments on that page are the requests. It's not an automated system. The Crop Wranglers just watch for new comments and add things as they are requested in the comments.
Ok, so I looked up what "French beans" means, and according to Wikipedia, "green bean", "string bean", "French bean", and "fine bean" are all Phaseolus vulgaris picked while unripe.
Phaseolus vulgaris is the species listed in our database as simply bean.
Thanks for the clarifications and the work you put into them, Maco. I will eventually get used to how this website works…
There are some things where the same species means multiple very different plants, like cabbage v. kale v. cauliflower (and those are listed separately), but I think in this case it's just lots of regional names. We DO intend to add alternate names, hopefully pretty soon. For instance, coriander and cilantro are the same plant, and you can only look it up by one of those names right now.