A legume, Vicia faba, known as the broad bean, fava bean or faba bean depending on region, among the oldest domesticated crops of the Old World, cultivated in the Near East and eastern Mediterranean since Neolithic times, alongside wheat, barley, lentil and pea. Faba bean was historically a staple pulse across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and parts of China, valued as both a food crop and, as a nitrogen-fixing legume, a soil-improving element of crop rotation before the widespread introduction of the common bean from the Americas after 1492 displaced it from some traditional roles. It remains widely grown today, particularly in China, Ethiopia, Australia, France and the United Kingdom.
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is common in the cold-weather regions of Ecuador
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are primarily cultivated in the central and north parts of Iran
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Broad beans (Portuguese: favas) are widely cultivated in Portugal
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1. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database: USDA PLANTS profile data for Vicia faba
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2. Vicia faba (Wikipedia)
- lead: flowering plant in the pea and bean family Fabaceae
- lead: widely cultivated as a crop for human consumption
- lead: varieties fed to horses or other animals, called field bean
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Vicia faba, commonly known as the broad bean
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widely cultivated as a crop for human consumption
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Carbonised domestic faba bean remains were discovered at three adjacent Neolithic sites in Israel's Lower Galilee
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domestication of the crop may have begun as early as 8250 BCE
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Faba bean was historically a staple pulse across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and parts of China, valued as both a food crop and, as a nitrogen-fixing legume, a soil-improving element of crop rotation before the widespread introduction of the common bean from the Americas after 1492 displaced it from some traditional roles.
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The broad bean has high plant hardiness; it can withstand harsh and cold climates.
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