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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).
The snow pea is an edible-pod pea with flat pods and thin pod walls, in contrast to snap pea pods, which are round with thick walls. [2] It is eaten whole, with both the seeds and the pod , while still unripened .
Snap peas, like all other peas, are pod fruits. An edible-podded pea is similar to a garden, or English, pea, but the pod is less fibrous, and is edible when young. Pods of the edible-podded pea, including snap peas, do not have a membrane and do not open when ripe. At maturity, the pods grow to around 4 to 8 centimetres (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 to 3 ...
The pigeon pea [1] (Cajanus cajan) or toor dal is a perennial legume from the family Fabaceae native to the Eastern Hemisphere. [2] The pigeon pea is widely cultivated in tropical and semitropical regions around the world, being commonly consumed in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Peapod Online Grocer (US), LLC is an American online grocery delivery service. [2] By February 2022, it changed its name to Peapod Digital Labs. [3]The company is based in Chicago, IL and operated in several U.S. cities.
After initial experiments with pea plants, Mendel settled on studying seven traits that seemed to be inherited independently of other traits: seed shape, flower color, seed coat tint, pod shape, unripe pod color, flower location, and plant height. He first focused on seed shape, which was either angular or round. [28]
Ripe, opened black-eyed pea in pod and developing pods. The black-eyed pea originates from West Africa and has been cultivated in China and India since prehistoric times. [6] It was grown [7] in Virginia since the 17th century by African slaves [8] who were brought to America along with the indigenous plants from their homelands. [9]