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Peanut

Also Known As Groundnut
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The peanut is a legume grown mainly for its edible seeds, which develop underground in pods after the plant's flowers fertilize and bury themselves in the soil, an unusual habit called geocarpy. It was first domesticated in South America east of the Andes, in the region spanning present-day Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil, arising from a hybrid of two wild species; the oldest archaeological evidence of peanut pods, found in Peru, dates to roughly 7,600 years ago. It serves as both a food legume and an oil crop, and its remains are known in English by several regional names, including groundnut and goober. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Scientific Name
Arachis hypogaea 1
Crop Class
Legume 1
Domestication Region
South America, east of the Andes (Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil) 1
Domesticated When (Circa)
Circa 7,600 years ago (oldest archaeological pod evidence, Peru) 1
Classification
Life Cycle
Annual 1
Primary Use
Food 1
Era
Era (category)
Neolithic 1
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A New World domesticate whose post-1492 spread to Africa and Asia is part of the Columbian Exchange.

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  • lead section, Domestication
  • lead description or Wikipedia lead (primary-uses)
    The peanut is a legume grown mainly for its edible seeds, which develop underground in pods after the plant's flowers fertilize and bury themselves in the soil, an unusual habit called geocarpy.
  • History section
    The oldest archaeological evidence dates to approximately 7,600 years ago in Peru.
  • Associated With: Columbian Exchange
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