In her basement kitchen, she bends around the hard angles of the breakfast bar like a beautiful bean pod, all elegant wrists and jutting cheekbones.

It may be a vector of the bean pod mottle virus, a plant pathogen.

Trees include guanacastle, oak, oak, spiny cedar, mahogany and bean pod.

Being in this family, it bears an unusual fruit for a tree that resembles a giant bean pod, with a sweet, refreshing, cotton-like edible fiber on the inside.

Broad bean pods are ready to pick, peas are swelling and potatoes coming into flower.