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Chickpea
Chickpea
Cicer arietinum
Plantae
RARE

Stats

Lifespan
Annual
Size
Small
Diet
Photosynthetic
Biome
Temperate grassland
Range
Middle East
Movement
Sessile
Breeding
Seeds
Defense
Toxins
Status
Rare

About

One of humanity's oldest cultivated crops, with 7,500-year-old remains found in the Middle East. The bushy annual plant grows feathery compound leaves and small white or violet flowers that each produce a pod containing one or two seeds.

Life cycle

  1. 1.
    seed
    A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
  2. 2.
    sprout
    A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
  3. 3.
    sapling
    A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
  4. 4.
    mature
    Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Fabales
Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Cicer
Species
Cicer arietinum