Are lima beans vegetables or legumes?
The pod is a fruit the plant is a legume. The bean itself is a dry fruit. It is a pod with two seams enclosing the seeds that developed from the ovary in the base of the flower after it was fertilized. A legume is a class of plants that grow root nodules to house bacteria that fix nitrogen for the plant in return for food and shelter. These plants all grow pods to house their seeds so the lima bean plant is a legume. http://waynesword.palomar.edu/fruitid1.h… A vegetable is the stem, root, or leaf of a plant or all the non-reproductive parts.
