Holland beans: larger, also known as lotus beans, shear beans, to eat the young pods, Dutch beans young pods crisp and fragrant, high nutritional value. Holland is 90-180 cm high, the whole plant is green, smooth and glabrous, frosted, stipules heart-shaped, leaflets ovoid, flowers white or purple-red, solitary or 1-3 arranged in racemose axils, pods long elliptic, flowering and fruiting period of April-May.

Lentil: flat oval or flat ovoid. Surface yellowish white or yellowish, smooth, slightly glossy, hard. The seed coat is thin and brittle, faint gas, light flavor, chewing with a soybean smell. Lentil whole plant a few hairless, stem length up to 6 meters, often lilac, pinnately compound leaves, racemes erect, pods oblong sickle-shaped, seeds flat, long elliptic, flowering April-December.

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The Dutch bean is a genus of pea plants in the family Pteridophyta, a twining annual herb, 90-180 cm tall.The first area where the Dutch bean was cultivated was along the Thai-Burma border about 12,000 years ago. Dutch beans are not produced in the Netherlands, and the reason they are called Dutch beans is because the Dutch brought them to China from their country of origin.

Lentils like warm, humid, sunny environment, the seeds of the appropriate germination temperature of 22-23 ℃, the plant can withstand high temperatures of about 35 ℃, the root system is developed and strong, strong drought resistance, good adaptability to a variety of soils, well-drained and fertile sandy soil or loamy soil planting can be a significant increase in yields, the riverside roadside, the head of the field, in front of the house can be cultivated, the low-lying land, saline and alkaline land should not be cultivated.

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