Species · Phaseolus lunatus
Regional heritage · United States, exact origin unknown
Growth habit · Climbing / pole
Harvest time · Late summer to autumn in Sydney
Ganymede is a vigorous climbing lima with medium-sized seeds marked in white, red and black. The beans can be picked for fresh shelling or left on the vine to dry for use in soups, stews and other bean dishes.
Ganymede was shared as an unnamed lima among American seed savers in the early 1980s. It was later named after one of Jupiter’s moons and was recorded in the United States national seed collection in 1989
