Pisum sativum
About
The pea is most commonly the small spherical seed or the seed-pod of the pod fruit Pisum sativum. Each pod contains several peas. Pea pods are botanically fruit, since they contain seeds and developed from the ovary of a (pea) flower. The name is also used to describe other edible seeds from the Fabaceae such as the pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan), the cowpea (Vigna unguiculata), and the seeds from several species of Lathyrus.
How to use it
This species is cultivated both as a vegetable crop for human consumption and as a fodder crop for animals.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
In the kitchen
The seeds and pods of this plant are widely eaten as a vegetable. They are also grown and harvested as a pulse crop.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Pisum sativum
- Slug
- pisum-sativum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Genus
- Pisum
- Species
- sativum
- Wikidata QID
- Q25237
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 38
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