Pea bean
Pea beans are several types of common food plants:
- a variety of edible common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) that has been recorded in Britain since the 16th century.[1] The seeds are unusual in being strongly bicoloured – red-brown and white. The plants are a typical climbing bean. The beans are either eaten in the pod like French beans or they may be harvested when mature and eaten as other dried beans.[2] Many seed catalogues list it as Phaseolus aegypticus[2] - a name unrecorded in the botanical literature. There have been other assertions that it is a form of lablab but horticultural consensus places it simply as variety of Phaseolus vulgaris,[3] closely related to French beans and haricot beans.
- In the USA the name "pea bean" is also used to describe small white common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris).
- The same name is used for Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis, also called yard-long bean and cowpea.[4]
References
- ↑ Gerard's Herbal 1597 -p.1040 -"The party coloured kidney bean of Egypt Phaseolus Aegypticus
- 1 2 Know your vegetables - Pea bean
- ↑ Vaughan, J. G.; C. A. Geissler (1997). The New Oxford Book of Food Plants. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-854825-7.
- ↑ USDA GRIN Taxonomy, retrieved 27 June 2015
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