There are a lot of broad beans (Vicia faba). Many people know them as fava beans, Windsor and horse beans. There are large seed and small seed varieties. Some examples are:
Fava Beans
Bean plants certainly have roots, but the part of the plant that is eaten is the seed (brown beans, flat beans, broad beans, lima beans, etc.), and often the seed pod (usually called green beans).
The collective noun for peas is a pod of peas.
Green beans are unripe bean pods. When you eat green beans, you are eating beans, but they are still in the pod. EXACTLY u r still eating yummy beans! in a pod with the beans concealed inside!
Prosopis Mesquite beans grow in a pod as they are legumes.
there are 4 peas in a pod
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The beans in green beans are usually white or a brownish color. The pod, or hull is green.
it is called a POD
Broad Beans
seeds (in a pod)
you pick pinto beans when the pods are full and anytime after if you want dried beans you can let them dry on the bush