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The word 'bean', for the Old World vegetable, existed in Old English, [3] long before the New World genus Phaseolus was known in Europe. With the Columbian exchange of domestic plants between Europe and the Americas, use of the word was extended to pod-borne seeds of Phaseolus, such as the common bean and the runner bean, and the related genus Vigna.
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Abrus precatorius, commonly known as jequirity bean or rosary pea, is a herbaceous flowering plant in the bean family Fabaceae.It is a slender, perennial climber with long, pinnate-leafleted leaves that twines around trees, shrubs, and hedges.
All of the flowers in an inflorescence open at once. In the Faboideae, the flowers are zygomorphic, and have a specialized structure. The upper petal, called the banner or standard, is large and envelops the rest of the petals in bud, often reflexing when the flower blooms. The two adjacent petals, the wings, surround the two bottom petals.
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.
Black beans: Half a cup of canned black beans offers 6g each of fiber and protein, as well as various micronutrients such as iron, magnesium, manganese, folate and thiamine.
Beans are the edible seeds from a legume plant — which means all beans are legumes but not all legumes are beans, Julia Zumpano, registered dietitian with the Cleveland Clinic’s Center for ...
The flowers give way to pods 8–20 cm (3–8 in) long and 1–1.5 cm wide. These may be green, yellow, black, or purple, each containing 4–8 beans. Some varieties develop a string along the pod; these are generally cultivated for dry beans, as green stringy beans are not commercially desirable.