Pea

Pea
SpeciesLegumes

An annual cool-season pulse crop whose seeds and pods are eaten as vegetables.

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Pea

  • Legumes

The pea is a pulse or fodder crop, and the term often refers to the seed or pod of the flowering plant species Pisum sativum. Its peas are eaten as a vegetable, either immature and fresh, frozen or canned, or as dry peas from mature pods. Pea plants are annuals grown in many parts of the world. Botanically, the pod is a fruit containing several seeds.

Scientific name
Pisum sativum
Life cycle
Annual
Pod classification
Fruit
Sources and credits

Sources and credits

Article
Pea (English Wikipedia)
Wikidata
Q25237
Text
Card text is adapted from the English Wikipedia article by an automated summary. Wikipedia content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for its contributors. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Article history and contributors
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By Bill Ebbesen. CC BY-SA 3.0 · File page on Wikimedia Commons
Bill Ebbesen, Own work
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