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The plant was introduced to the Americas by ships plying the Atlantic slave trade [17] by 1658, when its presence was recorded in Brazil. It was further documented in Suriname in 1686. Okra may have been introduced to southeastern North America from Africa in the early 18th century. By 1748, it was being grown as far north as Philadelphia. [18]
Mimosa pudica (also called sensitive plant, sleepy plant, [citation needed] action plant, humble plant, touch-me-not, touch-and-die, or shameplant) [3] [2] is a creeping annual or perennial flowering plant of the pea/legume family Fabaceae. It is often grown for its curiosity value: the sensitive compound leaves quickly fold inward and droop ...
50% of pods ripe, seeds final colour, dry and hard 86: 60% of pods ripe, seeds final colour, dry and hard 87: 70% of pods ripe, seeds final colour, dry and hard 88: 80% of pods ripe, seeds final colour, dry and hard 89: Fully ripe: all pods dry and brown. Seeds dry and hard (dry ripe) 9: Senescence 97: Plants dead and dry 99: Harvested product
Although we tend to think of peas as vegetables, they are actually considered legumes because they grow in pods, Derocha explains. And, like other legumes (such as chickpeas, black beans and ...
Pea (pisum in Latin) is a pulse, vegetable or fodder crop, but the word often refers to the seed or sometimes the pod of this flowering plant species. Carl Linnaeus gave the species the scientific name Pisum sativum in 1753 (meaning cultivated pea).
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The peas are dried and the dull-coloured outer skin of the pea removed, then split in half by hand or by machine at the natural split in the seed's cotyledon. There are green and yellow varieties of split pea. Gregor Mendel studied the inheritance of seed colour in peas; the green phenotype is recessive to the yellow one
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