Peas and green peas are not the same thing.

Peas are native to the Mediterranean and Central Asia, is one of the world's important cultivated crops. Seeds and young pods, young 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.

Green beans are native to China. It is cultivated all over the country, most famously in the northeast, and is widely cultivated all over the world.

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Peas Morphological Characteristics: annual climbing herb, 0.5-2 meters high. The whole plant is green, smooth and glabrous, powdery frost. Leaves with 4-6 leaflets, stipules larger than leaflets, leaf-like, cordate, lower margin with fine teeth.

Leaflets ovate-orbicular, 2-5 cm long, 1-2.5 cm wide; flowers solitary in leaf axils or several arranged in racemes; calyx campanulate, y 5-lobed, lobes lanceolate; corolla of various colors, varying with the species but mostly white and purple, androecium (9+1) two-bodied.

The ovary is glabrous, the style flat and bearded on the inner surface. Pods swollen, long ellipsoid, 2.5-10 cm long, 0.7-14 cm wide, apically obliquely acute, dorsally nearly straight, with a hard papery endocarp on the inner side; seeds 2-10, orbicular, greenish, wrinkled or absent, drying to yellow. Flowering period June-July, fruiting period July-September.

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