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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 .
Together with broad bean cultivars such as horse bean or field bean, the FAO includes it among the 11 most important pulses in the world. The main usage of the common vetch is as forage for ruminant animals, both as fodder and legume , but there are other uses, as tufted vetch V. cracca is grown as a mid-summer pollen source for honeybees .
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.
Flowers open 3 racemes per plant 65: Full flowering: flowers open on 5 racemes per plant 67: Flowering declining 69: End of flowering 7: Development of fruit 70: First pods have reached final length (“flat pod”) 71: 10% of pods have reached final length 72: 20% of pods have reached final length 73: 30% of pods have reached final length 74
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Flat beans are normally cooked, and served as the whole pods, the same way as other green beans. Like many other types of bean (see broad bean for example) they can also be dehusked or shelled , and the whitish seeds dried and stored, but there is no incentive to grow them for this purpose as higher-yielding bean varieties are available.
Lathyrus clymenum, also called Spanish vetchling, [2] is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to the Mediterranean. The seeds are used to prepare a Greek dish called fava santorinis . The plant is cultivated on the island of Santorini in Greece and was recently added to the European Union 's products with a Protected Designation of ...
Once fertilized, females B. rufimanus lay eggs on developing pods of faba beans. Rain, wind and temperatures below 20 °C put on hold the oviposition process. Eggs are laid predominantly on the lowest parts of the plant. [2] Eggs are small (< 2mm diameter), white-yellowish. A maximum of ten eggs per pod is observed. Females lay between 50 and ...