By Earlybird
Lincolnshire,
United Kingdom 
Can you tell me why runner beans always wrap round the canes anticlockwise. Even if you put them round the other way they always end up anticlockwise
8 Jun, 2016
Answers
yep down to genetics.
8 Jun, 2016
I believe, and it may be wrong, that in the southern hemisphere they wrap around the other way!
8 Jun, 2016
I know that when you empty to bath in the Southern Hemisphere, it turns the opposite way. Does put me in mind of the Flanders and Swann song:. 'Said the right-handed honeysuckle to the left-handed bindweed.
8 Jun, 2016
That's a myth, Jimmytheone, apparently - the link is to an article in the Guardian, its an amusing read
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2003/nov/13/research.science
8 Jun, 2016
That's a good read, Bamboo!
8 Jun, 2016
Thanks to you all for replying to my question.
8 Jun, 2016
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