Thank you for such an interesting response.  What is the resulting plant(s)?
Oliva

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From: Aaron Felker


>Most "beans" are seeds of various plants, they are made up of all of the
>necessary parts of a young plant.  When you split a peanut in half, you see
>two equal halves and a small bit on one end, the two halves are the
>cotyledons (embryonic leaf), the bit on the end is the embryo.  When the
>seed germinates, the embryo sends off a root/stem and the cotyledons open
>and start making food for the plant.
>
>Aaron Felker
>