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This bean was in a Joseph Simcox collection that I had acquired. I was able to look up the bean by name on a USDA seed bank site and it said origin UK. I think it's on a site when you google Grin Global. There isn't much else about the bean on the site as far as I remember.

Thanks for your explanation about where you found the very small amount of information about Ferrat bean and its apparent UK origin. Using your explanation here I found the databank entry at

Search Accessions GRIN-Global

npgsweb.ars-grin.gov

It does indeed suggest that it was given to the data bank by Joseph Simcox and that before 2005 it came from UK. The puzzling thing though is that it states that the seeds are white whereas the network seeds are tan coloured. It seems that it was last grown in 2013 but this doesn't look like the discolouration which comes with age. Also you've marked on the packet 'Tan short seed' which I assume confirms that tan is the true colour of this strain. So a bit of a mystery all round. Did Joseph Simcox collect from UK I wonder? As far as I know it's no longer known in UK.