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Show Peanut Not Really a Nut. The peanut is not a tint : it is a pea. It is n trailing. straggling plant, glowing glow-ing from one to two feet high, with thick, angular, pale green, hairy stems and spreading branches, and it rip. ns its fi sit or its peas or nuts, under ground. It is a strange habit. Small yellow flowers are borne at the joints where the leaves are aitaehed to the stems and as seen as pollination ;akes place the tlower fades and the "peg." as it is commonly called, buries itself in the ground, where the pod de-j de-j velops. |