The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Columbia Encyclopedia World Factbook American Heritage Coll. The genera and species encompassed by the term bean are many and variable.
Field beans are mostly the bush type and are used as stock feed.
P. vulgata is the French haricot and the Spanish frijole . The sieva is a type of lima. Baked beans, cooked for hours with pork or molasses or both, are a traditional New England dish. This custom lingered in England in the election of the king and queen for Twelfth Night and other celebrations and was taken to the New World colony at Massachusetts Bay, where Indian beans were used. 5 Classification Beans are classified in the division Magnoliophyta , class Magnoliopsida, order Rosales, family Leguminosae.