Dutch beans and peas are not the same thing.

Holland beans are a genus of peas in the family Pteridophyta, an annual twining herb, 90-180cm tall.

Holland beans are not produced in Holland, the reason why they are known as Holland beans is because the Dutch people brought them to China from their country of origin.

Dutch beans round body also known as honey beans or honey beans (Sugar snap peas), flat body known as green beans or Dutch beans (Snow pea), there are small cold beans, Huaibeans, hemp beans, green peas, stay in the beans, gold beans, back to the beans, wheat peas, wheat beans, Bibeans, hemp tired, state beans, soft pod peas, podded peas, sweet peas, Dutch peas, green spot, vegetable peas, and many other names. Available for consumption. To eat young pods mainly, native to the Mediterranean coast and western Asia, Dutch beans young pods crisp and fragrant, high nutritional value.

Peas (scientific name: Pisum sativumL.) legume annual climbing herb, 0.5-2 meters high. The whole plant is green, smooth and glabrous, powdery frost. Leaves with 4-6 leaflets, stipules cordate, lower margin finely dentate. Leaflets ovoid; flowers solitary in leaf axils or several arranged in racemes; calyx campanulate, lobes lanceolate; corolla color varies with species, but mostly white and purple. Ovary glabrous, style compressed. Pods swollen, long ellipsoid; seeds round, greenish, turning yellow when dry. Flowering period June-July, fruiting period July-September.

Native to the Mediterranean and Central Asia, it is one of the world's important cultivated crops. Seeds and young pods, seedlings are edible; seeds contain starch, oil, can be used for medicinal purposes, strong, diuretic, diarrhea effect; stems and leaves can be cool and relieve summer heat, and for green manure, fodder or fuel.