Name Variations[]
- English pea
- green pea
- shell pea
- fresh pea
- shellpeas
- shellies
- shuckies
- shellouts
About Garden pea[]
Wikipedia Article on Peas
A pea is the small, edible round green bean which grows in a pod on the leguminous vine Pisum sativum. This legume is cooked as a vegetable in many cultures. Several other seeds of the family Fabaceae, most of them round, are also called peas; this article deals with the species Pisum sativum and its cultivars. The pea plant is an annual plant, with a lifecycle of a year.