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A child holding an edible pod pea in Kenya. Snow peas, along with sugar snap peas and unlike field and garden peas, are notable for having edible pods that lack inedible fiber [11] (in the form of "parchment", a fibrous layer found in the inner pod rich in lignin [12]) in the pod walls. Snow peas have the thinner walls of the two edible pod ...
The plant species Musa ingens, also known as the giant highland banana or Oem, [2] is the physically largest member of the family Musaceae and the only member of the section Ingentimusa. Growing in the tropical montane forests of New Guinea - Arfak Mountains Regency in Indonesia , its leaves can reach a length of 5 meters (16 feet) and a width ...
The brand "Green Giant Great Big Tender Peas" was first used in 1925, [3] and the figure of a giant was introduced three years later by Carly Stanek (Bingum). The brand was created in response to the discovery of a new variety of pea , the Prince of Wales; they were "oblong, wrinkled, and, as peas go, huge.
Galactia is a genus of plants in the legume family ().It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae and tribe Diocleae [2] They do not have an unambiguous common name, being commonly called milk peas, beach peas or wild peas.
Cyrtosperma merkusii or giant swamp taro, is a crop grown throughout Oceania and into South and Southeast Asia. It is a riverine and "swamp crop" similar to taro, [1] but "with bigger leaves and larger, coarser roots." [2] There are no demonstrably wild populations today [citation needed], but it is believed to be native to Indonesia.
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 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 ...
Vicia narbonensis L. – Narbon bean, moor's pea (=V. serratifolia sensu auct. non Jacq.) Vicia nigricans – black vetch Vicia nigricans ssp. gigantea (=V. gigantea Hook.) – giant vetch; Vicia onobrychioides L. Vicia oroboides Wulfen; Vicia orobus DC. – upright vetch, wood bitter-vetch; Vicia palaestina Boiss. Vicia pannonica – Hungarian ...