134 Common bean Phaseolus vulgaris Phaseolus vulgaris, the common bean, string bean, field bean, flageolet bean, French bean, garden bean, haricot bean, pop bean, or snap bean, is a herbaceous annual plant grown worldwide for its edible fruit, either the dry seed or the unripe fruit, both of which are referred to as beans. The leaf is also occasionally used as a vegetable, and the straw can be used for fodder. Along with other species of the bean genus (Phaseolus), it is classified botanically into the legume family (Fabaceae), most of whose members acquire nitrogen through an association with rhizobia, a species of nitrogen-fixing bacteria. 26857 Phaseolus_vulgaris 134.jpg image/jpeg 6202 2012-04-20T09:43:01Z 141 Pulses Beans Type 1 2011-02-09T00:37:22Z 2019-05-14T18:04:17Z false specific 3885 true FOOD00134