different types of leguminous plants
Types of Legumes. The most popular legume plants are peas and beans. Pole or bush beans provide long slender pods, while peas may be shell or edible pods. Stringless varieties of beans are easier to eat and snow or sugar peas have such soft shells that the entire pea is delicious eaten whole.he range of legume plant forms includes vine types to creeping ground covers. All legumes are flowering and most have a flower that produces a thickened petal or keel that is formed by two petals that fuse together.