~We have been growing these beans for about ten years on our farm in southwest Colorado. They are a scarlet runner type with amazing color variation, from deep purple that's almost black to light lavender to a mottled purple to white. The plants are runners in habit and have both white and red flowers which the hummingbirds love! The seed originally came from a friend who works as a midwife in an indigenous Tarahumara village in northern Mexico.~