SC - Black-eyed peas

[Anne-Marie Rousseau]

Hiya from Anne-Marie 

Ras sez:
>Sorry for the confusion. Black-eyed peas are a member of the Vigna spp. They
>are all commonly referred to as cowpeas. Technically they are , in fact,
>beans.  The legumes have many terms used for their several categories
>including beans, cowpeas, peas, lupines and other terms depending on the
>individual chacteristics.

OK, so are they a pea or a bean, ie little pea leaves and pea flowers, or
big flat bean leaves and bean flowers?

Pen poised, ready to revise my "all beans are new world all peas are old
world" blanket statement...:)

- --AM, delighted on this topic.

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