It is an annual plant of the legume family, native to the tropical regions of South America. Peanuts are one of the types of nuts famous for their nutritional value and their great role in promoting heart and arterial health.
Useful legumes range in height from one foot (about 30 centimetres) to three feet (about 90 centimetres). It has small yellow flowers, and the stalks bend toward the soil so that its elongated pods, each containing two or three seeds, ripen under the soil.
