Runner Beans Large Mug

Lovely fine bone china mug. These large breakfast mugs hold a decent amount of your favourite  beverage. Supplied in an elegantly illustrated box.

Capacity 400 ml. Dishwasher Safe

RUNNER BEANS. Phaseolus coccineus. Runner Beans are descended from wild small-podded plants that can still be found in the cool partially shaded high-altitude pine and oak forests of Guatemala and Mexico.

The wild varieties were domesticated over 2000 years ago by the indigenous peoples of Central America. In these cultures they were known as one of ‘the three sisters’ because the indigenous people grew it with maize which provided a pole for the vine and Squash which provided a natural water retentive mulch. The bean fixed nitrogen which provided the three sisters with fertile soil.