western australia

I think these are lupins. Any ideas?

@JudyEv (346531)

Rockingham, Australia

June 5, 2023 10:24pm CST

On our way home from the endurance ride in Ravensthorpe, Western Australia, we stopped in a truck bay to have a cup of coffee. There was a pile of seeds of some sort on the ground. I thought they might have been coffee beans, having never paid much attention to coffee beans before but now I think they might be lupins which would make much more sense for a farming area. Do they look anything like coffee beans to you or was that a really ridiculous thought?

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@xFiacre (13218)

• Ireland

6 Jun 23

@JudyEv Nothing like any coffee bean I’ve seen. These are one variety of lupin seeds. There are others.

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@xFiacre (13218)

• Ireland

6 Jun 23

@JudyEv Are lupine a farmed crop? Great for attracting insects for pollination I know.

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@JudyEv (346531)

• Rockingham, Australia

6 Jun 23

@xFiacre Yes, lupins are grown a lot here. I think they're mostly used for stock feed.

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@JudyEv (346531)

• Rockingham, Australia

6 Jun 23

So the shape is similar. Some farmers in the area plant lupins so perhaps they're just a different variety.

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@BarBaraPrz (48573)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

6 Jun 23

They're some sort of seed...

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@BarBaraPrz (48573)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

7 Jun 23

@JudyEv Now, that's an idea.

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@JudyEv (346531)

• Rockingham, Australia

7 Jun 23

I should have brought a few home to germinate.

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@LadyDuck (472492)

• Switzerland

6 Jun 23

I have always and only seen Lupins sold in jars and they are bigger and yellow. Lupins come from tall blue flowers, did you see any of those flowers around? I see that Fiacre posted a photo of lupins, those are exactly the same I remember. Those in your photo looks more like beans.

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@LadyDuck (472492)

• Switzerland

6 Jun 23

@JudyEv I have seen coffee plants and beans and those are different. I have never seen unprocessed lupins but those sold here look different.

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@JudyEv (346531)

• Rockingham, Australia

6 Jun 23

Farmers here grown lupins which made me wonder if that's what these are. No-one grows coffee. I can't understand how there is a big pile like this on the ground. Very close by was a similar big pile of wheat.

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@RasmaSandra (82566)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

6 Jun 23

I have no idea but I think certainly not coffee beans, All the photos I saw of coffee beans have a line down the middle of each bean,

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@JudyEv (346531)

• Rockingham, Australia

7 Jun 23

It doesn't make sense that they'd be coffee beans. Now I'm wishing I'd kept some.

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@Deepizzaguy (106761)

• Lake Charles, Louisiana

6 Jun 23

They look like coffee beans in this picture.

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@JudyEv (346531)

• Rockingham, Australia

6 Jun 23

Thanks for your input. It's hard to know what they are.

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@Deepizzaguy (106761)

• Lake Charles, Louisiana

10 Jun 23

@JudyEv You are welcome.

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@LindaOHio (183910)

• United States

6 Jun 23

I don't have a clue. Sorry.

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@JudyEv (346531)

• Rockingham, Australia

6 Jun 23

No doubt I'll find out for sure one day.

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@LindaOHio (183910)

• United States

6 Jun 23

@JudyEv I know about lupini beans. I used to eat those when I was young; and they used to have them at Italian festivals.

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@AmbiePam (96073)

• United States

6 Jun 23

I would definitely have no idea what those are, or what a lupin is. And darn it, spell check keeps changing that word to lipid.

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@JudyEv (346531)

• Rockingham, Australia

6 Jun 23

Don't you hate it when the computer thinks it is smarter than you are?

And it's even worse when you discover that sometimes it is smarter!

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@snowy22315 (185372)

• United States

6 Jun 23

Gee, I don't know. Until this discussion I never heard of lupins..

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@JudyEv (346531)

• Rockingham, Australia

7 Jun 23

I think here they're mostly used as stock feed, sheep in particular.

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@Jenaisle (14078)

• Philippines

6 Jun 23

I have seen coffee beans before and they don't look like that. I think it's from a different kind of legume.

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@JudyEv (346531)

• Rockingham, Australia

6 Jun 23

Thanks for your thoughts. It seems people are divided as to what they might be.

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@wolfgirl569 (111794)

• Marion, Ohio

6 Jun 23

At first I thought they were pebbles

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@JudyEv (346531)

• Rockingham, Australia

6 Jun 23

I thought so too at first till I got up closer.

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@Fleura (31013)

• United Kingdom

7 Jun 23

To me they look just like broad/field/fava beans. You could have picked up a couple and germinated them to see what you got?

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@Fleura (31013)

• United Kingdom

7 Jun 23

@JudyEv I think all the names are the same species, but fava beans are much smaller than the garden varieties of broad beans. In your picture they do look exactly like broad beans, but miniature. I am curious now!

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@JudyEv (346531)

• Rockingham, Australia

8 Jun 23

@Fleura I'm wishing I'd brought some home with me. I took a few to the car to the show Vince but then tossed them. Now I'll never know!

Logically, they should be lupins being in that area. I can't imagine farmers there growing any other sort of beans or whatever.

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@JudyEv (346531)

• Rockingham, Australia

7 Jun 23

They were much, much smaller than broad beans. I'm not familiar with the others you mention. I wish now I'd kept some of them. Someone would have known what they were.

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@manikarnika (3236)

• India

6 Jun 23

Nope...It is not looking like Coffee bean

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@JudyEv (346531)

• Rockingham, Australia

6 Jun 23

Perhaps one day, I'll find out what they were.

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@Butterfingers (66607)

• India

6 Jun 23

I don't think they are coffee beans

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@JudyEv (346531)

• Rockingham, Australia

6 Jun 23

Thanks for answering. Maybe they are some other sort of beans.

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@Beestring (14923)

• Hong Kong

6 Jun 23

I have no idea but they don't look like coffee beans to me.

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@JudyEv (346531)

• Rockingham, Australia

6 Jun 23

Hopefully, one day the mystery will be solved. No-one grows coffee around here so perhaps they are a variety of lupin.

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@RebeccasFarm (92064)

• United States

6 Jun 23

I am not sure at all but Anna has the answer most likely.

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@RebeccasFarm (92064)

• United States

6 Jun 23

Right

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@JudyEv (346531)

• Rockingham, Australia

6 Jun 23

I can't imagine how there was such a pile of them at a truck bay.

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