Broad bean
Vicia faba
About
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. Varieties with smaller, harder seeds that are fed to horses or other animals are called field bean, tic bean or tick bean. This legume is commonly consumed in many national and regional cuisines.
- Family
- Fabaceae
How to use it
Broad beans are commonly cultivated as a cover crop, which helps improve soil health by fixing nitrogen. They can also be used as animal feed, particularly the varieties with smaller, harder seeds known as field beans.
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Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Vicia faba
- Slug
- vicia-faba
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Vicia
- Species
- faba
- Wikidata QID
- Q131342
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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