This powder is an ingredient in plastics, cork substitutes, wallboard, and abrasives. Peanut foliage makes good hay. But most farmers return the harvested plants to the ground to fertilize the soil. The peanut is grown as an annual crop. Peanut plants range in type from bunch plants to runner plants.
Bunch plants grow upright.
Runner plants spread out on or near the ground as they grow. Both kinds of Virginias include bunch and runner plants. Spanish and Valencia types are bunch. Peanut plants bear many small, yellow, pealike flowers where the leaves are attached to the stems. The plants blossom continuously for two to three months.