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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).
Lepidium sativum, garden cress. Medicago sativa, alfalfa. Nigella sativa, a flower whose edible seeds are sometimes known as "black cumin" or "black caraway". Oryza sativa, rice. Pastinaca sativa., parsnip, a root vegetable closely related to the carrot and parsley; all belong to the family Apiaceae. Pisum sativum, pea plant. Ribes sativum, the ...
Dry peas (code 0187, Pisum spp.) Garden pea (Pisum sativum var. sativum) Protein pea (Pisum sativum var. arvense) Chickpea, garbanzo, Bengal gram (code 0191, Cicer arietinum) Dry cowpea, black-eyed pea, blackeye bean (code 0195, Vigna unguiculata) Pigeon pea, Arhar/Toor, cajan pea, Congo bean, gandules (code 0197, Cajanus cajan)
Snow peas and snap peas both belong to Macrocarpon Group, [3] [4] [1] [5] a cultivar group based on the variety Pisum sativum var. macrocarpum Ser. named in 1825. [6] It was described as having very compressed non-leathery edible pods in the original publication. The scientific name Pisum sativum var. saccharatum Ser. is often
The family Fabaceae includes a number of plants that are common in agriculture including Glycine max , Phaseolus (beans), Pisum sativum , Cicer arietinum , Vicia faba , Medicago sativa , Arachis hypogaea , Ceratonia siliqua (carob), Trigonella foenum-graecum , and Glycyrrhiza glabra .
Marrowfat peas are green mature peas (Pisum sativum L. [1] or Pisum sativum var. medullare [2]) that have been allowed to dry out naturally in the field, rather than being harvested while still young like the normal garden pea. They are starchy, and are used to make mushy peas.
Pea soup or split pea soup is soup made typically from dried peas, such as the split pea.It is, with variations, a part of the cuisine of many cultures. It is most often greyish-green or yellow in color depending on the regional variety of peas used; all are cultivars of Pisum sativum.