Vicia Faba

• The Vicia Faba
  Notes on botany, cultivation, food value, and commercial production. Purdue University. Cultivated as a vegetable and used green or dried, fresh or canned, and for stock feed. feeding value of broadbeans is high, considered in some areas superior to ...
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• The Faba Bean
  Fababean is an annual legume known botanically as Vicia faba L. The crop is known by many names, most of which refer to a particular subgroup rather than the whole species. Common names for fababean include the largeseeded broadbeans or windsorbeans ...
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• The Hairy Vetch
  The vetches plants of the genus Vicia are distributed throughout the temperate zones of both hemispheres. There are about 150 species of vetch, several of which were of agricultural importance centuries ago. Some 25 species are native to the United S ...
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