well, it depends if you eat the shelled seeds or just the seeds....
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A pea, although treated as a vegetable in cooking, is botanically a fruit; the term is most commonly used to describe the small spherical seeds or the pods of the legume Pisum sativum.[1] The name is also used to describe other edible seeds from the Fabaceae like the pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan), the cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) and the seeds from several species of Lathyrus.
"the term is most commonly used to describe the small spherical seeds or the pods of the legume Pisum sativum."
when I talk about peas , I dont think of the shelled flatish "fruit" that you sometimes get , I think of the green little roundish 'seeds'..or the hard yellow peas (that we in Sweden make pea soup from, whole peas , not split) ,those would hardly be a fruit!?
LOL
good discussion...
now where do these 'fruits' in SF come from?
Last edited by Bjorn Sefeldt; 10/18/0702:26 PM. Reason: spellings
