The pod, nicknamed by the first vegetable botanists, is a dry pericarp fruit with double dehiscence (sutural and dorsal), the two slits isolating two valves which each carry a row of seeds.
This fruit is characteristic of plants of the Fabaceae family, often also called legumes for this reason. It is distinguished from the follicle...
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