Holland Bean, also known as Holland Bean, Shear Bean, and Knife Bean, is a genus of peas in the family Pteridophyceae.

Dutch bean varieties are mainly large pod peas, crisp sweet soft pod 80-11, Prairie 21, Futamura russet silk pod 2, pod-eating large vegetable peas 1, soluble sugar and other varieties.

The Dutch bean is not produced in Holland, mainly because the Dutch brought it to China, and now it is mainly planted in the north and south of China.

Holland beans look like

Holland beans can be used for food, is an annual twining herb, plant height in 90-180 cm, the plant is green, hairless, or covered with a powder frost, young pods texture crisp fragrance, high nutritional value.

1, color

The pods of Dutch beans are swollen, bright green, with a hard inner skin on the inside, and the color of the seeds is lime green, turning yellow after drying.

2, leaf characteristics

The Dutch bean stipules are larger than the leaflets, heart-shaped, with serrated lower margins, and the leaflets are ovoid, entire, with an auriculate base enclosing the petiole.

3, seed appearance

Seeds can be cylindrical, elliptic, oblate, concave-rounded, mostly lime green, but there are also is yellow-white, red, rose, brown, black, and other colors, the seeds are yellow after drying.

4, the root looks like

The roots of the Dutch bean grow a large number of lateral roots, the main root, lateral roots are covered with rhizomes.

Describing Dutch beans sentences

Every time I go to my mother-in-law's house, I have to go to the rooftop on the fourth floor, which is a small, vibrant field of yellow and green celery, lush green onions, and upwardly mobile Dutch bean seedlings, which have been climbing upward along long bamboo poles, blooming with tiny purple flowers like little butterflies, and inside the pods are rounded fruits.

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