At first glance at this picture, you may wonder if some sort of hairy bug was on the plant.
Not so. It is the essence of the plant itself. What we have here is a ripe soybean pod.
These ripe pods hold a ton of uses: from soybean oil to feed to candlewax. Who knows if or what other secretes soybean plants might be discovered?
Earlier I posted a picture of a soybean field as it was just beginning to turn from green to gold. At harvest, as you can see, the plants are a deep brown. The ones in the pic are pretty because of the way the light is hitting them. As I drive by yet unharvested soybean fields now, they look pretty forlorn, telling me that summer has dried on the vine, and that the colors of mid-Autumn are soon to become dearly departed.
If you want to learn more about the history and uses of soybeans, the amount of websites pro and con about soy is mind-boggling, to say the least, so I'll leave it up to you to do your own searching.
Marcheta *bean there, done that
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