FREE: Chinese Snake Bean (Dow Gauk)

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(3) Dow Gauk Seeds

Produces long, slender green pods which are sweet, tender and perfect for snap bean use. Great in stir-fry dishes. Best when pods are about 12 inches long, but remain stringless at greater lengths.

Chinese Snake Bean is an annual climbing plant. A cousin to the cowpea or black-eye pea, Chinese snake bean is much more of a trailing, climbing variety, and often reaches heights of 9-12 feet. The pods grow to 12 to 30 inches long. The plant has large yellow to violet-blue flowers. It is an indeterminate plant, meaning it continues to grow after flowering and fruiting.

Other names. Taao-hla-chao (Hmong); juro-kusasagemae (Japanese); dow gauk (Chinese); sitaw (Filipino); dau-dau (Vietnamese).