On Food and Cooking

Some    Vegetable   Beans   and Their   Origins

Green

bean

Phaseolus

vulgaris

Central

America

Lima    bean Phaseolus  lunatus South   America

Green   peas,   sugar   peas,

snow    peas,   pea shoots

Pisum

sativum

Western

Asia

Fava    bean Vicia  faba Western    Asia

Long    bean Vigna  unguiculata Africa

Soybean Glycine max East    Asia

Winged,

asparagus   bean

Tetragonolobus

purpureus

Africa

Other Fruits Used as Vegetables

Avocado The avocado tree Persea americana
is a native of Central America and a member
of the laurel family, a relative of the bay
laurel, California bay, and sassafras. Like its
relatives, it has aromatic leaves that are used