Chinese name: Fava bean

Latin name: Vicia?faba?Linn

Alias: Hu beans, Buddha beans, Hu beans, Sichuan beans, bonnet beans, Luohan beans

Family: Leguminosae

Genus: Wild pea

Region of distribution: in our country, the most in Sichuan, followed by Yunnan, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Qinghai and so on

Annual or biennial herbaceous plants, square stems, hollow center, white flowers with purple spots, pods. Seeds for food.