Fisole die [-so-], -/n, ugs: frische Bohnenschote
Phaseolus Vulgaris
Snap bean, also called string bean, green bean or wax bean; shell bean,
also called horticultural bean (Phaseolus vulgaris); lima bean, also called butter bean
(P. lunatus); baby lima bean, also called baby butter bean (P. lunatus); edible soybean
(Glycine max)
Beans are among the most important food crops, economically and nutritionally, in the world.
The pods of all the species listed here contain beans that can be cooked or dried for later use;
in the case of snap beans, the pods themselves are cooked. The plants bear small white, yellow,
pink, red or lavender flowers that resemble sweet-pea blossoms.
Snap beans come in bush varieties, which usually grow about 1 1/2 feet tall, and pole, or climbing,
varieties, which twine counterclockwise around any support and become 6 feet or more tall.
The plants produce green, yellow and, occasionally, purple pods. Among bush-type snap beans,
excellent green-podded varieties are Tendercrop and Bush Romano (the latter has tender,
broad pods and the meaty flavor usually found only in plants known as Italian pole beans).
A fine bush type of wax, or yellow-podded, snap bean is Goldcrop.
A variety of purple-podded bush that is green when cooked is Royalty.
A 15-foot row of bush beans yields about 7 pounds over a period of two to three weeks.
Among pole beans, the most popular green-podded type is Kentucky Wonder, but Blue Lake is
also fine; a top-quality Italian pole bean is Romano.
A 15-foot row of pole beans yields about 12 pounds over a period of six to eight weeks
The name for this workshop was conceived in a chain of associative rhyming sessions.
In the beginning there was the thought of the O'Reilly UNIX books and their bestiary covers.
Through a number of iterations el and cym rhymed vegetable names with common technical terms.
The result was Fisole, which rhymes conveniently with Konsole, the German word for console.
(Fisole should be pronouced feeSOHlay and Konsole - respectively - conSOHlay)
The title is a regular expression usable with grep.
The expression matches either fsl as a minimum requirement or fisole as maximum.
The image of the Phaseolus Vulgaris was taken from
the TimeLife Plant Encyclopedia.
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