Cultivated Pea pods, Lathyrus oleraceus syn. Pisum sativum, Fabaceae. UK. Pea (pisum in Latin) is a pulse, vegetable or fodder crop.

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Cultivated Pea pods, Lathyrus oleraceus syn. Pisum sativum, Fabaceae. UK. 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). Some sources now treat it as Lathyrus oleraceus, however the need and justification for the change is disputed. Botanically, pea pods are fruit, since they contain seeds and develop from the ovary of a (pea) flower.

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