PlantFiles: Snap Bean (String, Green or French Bean)
Phaseolus vulgaris 'Purple Pod Pole'

I love these beans. They're not only colorful, they're very productive. On top of that, they're so much easier to harvest because they're so easily seen (as compared to bush green beans). Trellised, they're a lot easier on the back, too! LOL

Very tasty, and quite the conversation starter when served raw (cut up) in a salad.

This is a very nice pole bean that (as the name implies)produces a rich, purple colored snap bean. The bean has a strong, vigorous vine that easily reached and surpassed our 8 foot trellis. The vines have a lot of purple on them and the leaves are a dark (I'd say "hunter") green. The tiny beans emerge as green with purple highlights, then turn entirely purple when ripe (a very quick process in the height of bean season). A good producer. My daughter and I enjoyed growing these beans.