It is a large 17-12mm caliber bean, with an iridescent light green color. To obtain a light color, they must be harvested beyond the waxy state but still not too dry, collected in swaths and left to dry. Then thresh in the field with adjustment of the thresher revolutions to avoid excessive breakages.

As with all other legumes, the various types of broad beans are the result of the microclimate and characteristics of the soil in the specific territorial areas that lie within the provincial territories in patches of leopard, often fragmented into plots of a few hectares of individual producers. Since the populations are regenerated, that is, re-sown from year to year, different and non-standardized, the production batches from the same year's harvest may have different characters in color and consistency, thickness of the skin and toughness of the inside of the seed. The more a population includes several lines or a mixture of more seeds, the greater the diversity of color and texture in the same batch of product. “The Modicana cottoia bean”, “Leonforte bean”, “Monreale bean” are an example.