White Runner Beans are cream-coloured, slightly smaller than the bean produced by Scarlet Runner Beans.
The plant produces attractive white blossoms, but is grown more for food than for its ornamental value.
Like all runner beans, White Runner Beans can be used as a green bean when very young, as a shelling bean later on, or as a dried bean.
In the Netherlands, White Runner Beans are preferred to Scarlet Runner Beans.
Sweet White Runner Beans is a hybrid developed from White Runner Beans.
Substitutes
Gigantes Beans