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« on: May 21, 2008, 20:17 »
There is a field with small plants in them that have a white flower with a black spot.  Not musch info to go I know but any ideas so I can look at some picckes of it on google and see if it matches.  Someone did say he feeds it to his animals but next door is allotments and one patch is also growing it.
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« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2008, 20:30 »
Clover? - some have black spots, I'm sure(ish).

http://www.frogsonice.com/photos/flowers3/bee-clover.jpg
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« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2008, 20:37 »
Could it be a bean?
Broad bean has black and white flower, aren't this family sometimes used for animal food?
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« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2008, 20:40 »
Quote from: "sawnee"
Could it be a bean?
Broad bean has black and white flower, aren't this family sometimes used for animal food?


Would make sense, does it look like this?.....



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« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2008, 20:46 »
yep thats it thanks I can sleep tonight now.  Hehe

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« Reply #5 on: May 21, 2008, 22:48 »
Enjoy the perfume too. :) Soooo much nicer than ghastly rape fields :puker:  :lol:
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« Reply #6 on: May 22, 2008, 09:13 »
Farmers grow 'Field Beans' as animal fodder. They look almost exactly like broad beans.

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« Reply #7 on: May 22, 2008, 09:47 »
They ARE broad beans.
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« Reply #8 on: May 22, 2008, 11:44 »
Quote from: "gobs"
They ARE broad beans.


Quite right Gobs  :!: although slightly different cultivars:

Quote from: "[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicia_faba
Wikipedia[/url]"]In much of the Anglophone world, the name broad bean is used for the large-seeded cultivars grown for human food, while horse bean and field bean refer to cultivars with smaller, harder seeds (more like the wild species) used for animal feed, though their stronger flavour is preferred in some human food recipes, such as falafel. The term fava bean (from the Italian fava, meaning "broad bean") is its most common name in the United States, with broad bean being the most common name in the UK.


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