Details for: NGB 31873, Phaseolus vulgaris L. var. vulgaris, Cullenbergs böna

  Sweden

  United States
Associated species: Donor taxon name: Phaseolus vulgaris
Comment: Donor remark: This bean has been given to the donor (Lena Israelsson) by Arvid Cullenberg, Main, USA in 2017. It has been cultivated by the Cullenberg family for five generations in Massachusetts and Maine since 1890 when Arvid´s grandfathers father emigrated from Sweden (Kullaberg Scania) to USA. Anders Kullenberg (1840-1918) was the first one cultivating it. His son, Arvid, emigrated to USA in 1890 and Anders and his wife gave their son some beans that he brought to his new home in Attleboro in Massachusetts. Next generation to grow the bean was Arvid Burton who also lived in Massachusetts. In 1972, his son Robert, who had moved to Farmington in Main, took over the responsibility of the family bean. When Roberts son Arvid started to grow the bean, he got a jar with beans harvested several years earlier by his father and they doubted that they still were alive. Luckily a few of them were and step by step Arvid could increase the amount. In the original village of the bean, Söderåkra in Scania, Sweden, it is long forgotten and lost but finally, this family bean could return back to Sweden with the help of Lena Israelsson. She came in contact with Arvid who sent her a bag of beans from the 2017 harvest. The bean is yellow-brown with a white eye surrounded by a dark circle. The shape is softly rounded. The type is the same as the ones used for the traditional Swedish dish ”brown beans” but with a lighter brown colour.
Donator(s):

• Israelsson, Lena