Broad Bean ‘Crimson Flowered’ Vicia faba
‘Crimson Flowered’ is a very old heirloom. Red more about it at Daughter of the Soil.
This season I have planted a single seed of the variety ‘Crimson Flowered’ into my breeding project for purple seeded fava. Crimson Flowered has iridiscent green seeds. I want to combine the beautiful red flower with the purple seeds of my breeding project. It’s up to the bumblebees to do the pollination, the are better at it than I.
Next year I expect a few plants with flowers of a muddy color. That will be the plants resulting from crosses between Crimson Flowered and my purple seeded material. I will be exited to see how many (if any) red flowers that will show in two years, and if any of them will have purple seeds?
In the toad's garden 
April 14, 2009 at 16:38
I’ve been saving seed from Crimson flowered broad beans since 1994; as I’ve also been growing Estonian purple-seeded beans & the variety ‘Red Epicure’ (which has white flowers, but red seeds), I now have plants which combine these various characters viz. crimson flowers, purple seeds, red seeds
April 14, 2009 at 21:48
Do you remember if these characters inherit dominant or recessive? How many years before you had the first purple seeds on a crimsonflowered broad bean plant?
Anyway, it nice to learn, that the path I have chosen will lead to my goal.
August 11, 2012 at 13:16
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