Recipe Warm Potato and Green Bean Salad

morning glory said:
Its that transatlantic confusion again. Or maybe just a bean confusion. Its enough to drive anyone crazy. On the bright side, most sorts of green beans would work in the recipe.
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"Runner Beans look like somewhat larger versions of what North Americans know as Green Beans or String Beans. There are a few differences, other than just size. Runner Beans are a perennial plant, whereas Green Beans are annuals. When the Runner Bean seed first starts to grow, the stem and the first set of leaves are the first thing to emerge from the ground. When a Green Bean seed starts to grow, the first thing to emerge from the ground is the two halves of the seed. Runner Bean vines twist clockwise, Green Bean vines twist counterclockwise."


http://www.cooksinfo.com/runner-beans
 
classic33 said:
I didn't either, until the answers were posted for know your greens.
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But why is that (the anti clockwise or clockwise twisting)? I'm now wondering which way other plants twist. Goes off to inspect Morning Glory plants (yes, I really do have some growing here).... OK, they are clockwise. Is it something to do with hemispheres, like water going down the plughole?
 
morning glory said:
But why is that (the anti clockwise or clockwise twisting)? I'm now wondering which way other plants twist. Goes off to inspect Morning Glory plants (yes, I really do have some growing here).... OK, they are clockwise. Is it something to do with hemispheres, like water going down the plughole?
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North America is in the same hemisphere! Down to the plant themselves I'd say.
 
There are a couple of interesting aritcles on the winding and twisting of plants... both runner beans and morning glory and mentioned as are cucumbers and honeysuckle.
It basically comes down to a mutant protein in the cell wall... more or less that is.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/3296579/New-twist-on-plants-that-grow-in-spirals.html
https://www.newscientist.com/blog/lastword/2006/01/do-twist.html
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/aug/30/secrets-climbing-plants-tendrils
morning glory said:
Is it something to do with hemispheres
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nope - that is nothing but a rumour.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
There are a couple of interesting aritcles on the winding and twisting of plants... both runner beans and morning glory and mentioned as are cucumbers and honeysuckle.
It basically comes down to a mutant protein in the cell wall... more or less that is.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/3296579/New-twist-on-plants-that-grow-in-spirals.html
https://www.newscientist.com/blog/lastword/2006/01/do-twist.html
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/aug/30/secrets-climbing-plants-tendrils

nope - that is nothing but a rumour.
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Its all fascinating! I love the Flanders and Swann song that's quoted. I suppose I must be a mutant, then (at a molecular level). I always suspected so. Oh well, off I will go to merrily twist and wrap myself around a few more threads and topics (anti-clockwise, of course).
 
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