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Vicia faba, commonly known as the broad bean, fava bean, or faba bean, is a species of vetch, a flowering plant in the pea and bean family Fabaceae. It is widely cultivated as a crop for human consumption, and also as a cover crop .
Vicia is a genus of over 240 species of flowering plants that are part of the legume family (), and which are commonly known as vetches.Member species are native to Europe, North America, South America, Asia and Africa.
Botrytis fabae is a plant pathogen, a fungus that causes chocolate spot disease of broad or fava bean plants, Vicia faba. It was described scientifically by Mexican-born Galician microbiologist Juan Rodríguez Sardiña in 1929. [1]
Fava beans also have nutritional advantages, according to Newton, as they are higher in protein and lower in fat compared to cocoa powder, and because of their ability to fix nitrogen in the soil ...
Fava may refer to: Vicia faba, a leguminous plant whose beans are also known as broad beans or fava beans. Fava (Greek dish), a puree made of split peas.
Fava bean stir fry Every week Mohd-Radzman makes a stir-fry with lots of fava beans. She starts by blanching the beans in boiling water for a few minutes, and squeezing them out of their pods once ...
Physostigma venenosum, the Calabar bean or ordeal bean, is a leguminous plant, Endemic to tropical Africa, with a seed poisonous to humans.It derives the first part of its scientific name from a curious beak-like appendage at the end of the stigma, in the centre of the flower; this appendage, though solid, was supposed to be hollow (hence the name from φῦσα, a bladder, and stigma).
The Fabaceae (/ f ə ˈ b eɪ s i. iː,-ˌ aɪ /) or Leguminosae, [6] commonly known as the legume, pea, or bean family, are a large and agriculturally important family of flowering plants. It includes trees , shrubs , and perennial or annual herbaceous plants , which are easily recognized by their fruit ( legume ) and their compound, stipulate ...