This is a new segregating population that is the result of a cross with Tigers Eye (aka Zapallo) bush bean and the Beefy Resilient Grex bred by Carol Deppe, who had this to say about it: Bred for organic systems. The most intensely beefy flavored bean I have ever eaten. Also the most productive dry bean I have ever grown by a factor of 2X or more. This is a segregating population of beans that represent the F3 and F4 of crosses between Gaucho common bean X Black Mitla tepary bean.) (Phaseolus vulgaris X Phaseolus acutifolius). Gaucho is a very early, very delicious gold dry bean. Black Mitla tepary is a widely adapted bean with a powerful delicious flavor as a dry bean. Both are small beans round in cross section and about twice as long as wide. Both are easy to thresh. Teparies are unusually heat resistant and drought hardy, and are resistant or tolerant to diseases common beans succumb to.
