hello everyone!
I was recently at my local botanical garden and I saw these FABULOUSLY vibrant purple bean pods hanging down from vines, with teeny little flowers, and I thought out very loudly "Those are so cool! My dad needs those in his garden so I can enjoy them!!" The little sign said they were purple hibiscus beans or purple bean hibiscus, I can't remember exactly which...but when I searched the web, nothing came up except regular hibiscus and beans. Has anyone else seen or heard of them? Is there any knowledge out there at all? I'm sure I could go back to the gardens and ask someone, but I was near positive that someone on this site would have some info for me.
Thanks for any help in advance.

lilitu...
I have some of those seeds I can send you if you want some.

They grow really fast!

Cindy

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here are two sites with good info and a few pics...
site 1
site 2

Pink? i didn't know they had pink!

There is also white although I've only seen pictures of it.

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Rosie z7a

I've grown the white.the flowers are shorter& the pods were striped purple& green.I musta lost my whites...I didn't grow this year.& not sure if had any pics last year of the white.it grew with my mandevilla& white moonvine on arbor till hubby hit the white hycanith with weedwacker.I CAN tell ya that if ya cut bottom out of butter bown and set over broke stem and fill with dirt....that it WON'T revive.

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