Brief Introduction
Also known as horse bean, Windsor bean, English bean, tick bean, fava bean, field bean, and pigeon bean, Broad Bean is a species of Beans that belong to the large family of vicia Faba, Fabaceae . The categorization has been largely done on the basis of different varieties as well as their respective uses in various countries. It seems that Broad beans got their name from the seeds which are large and flat.
Now these subspecies like faba var. minor is the beck, tick, or pigeon bean, greatly used for human consumption in the Arabic world, along with their use for animal forage as well. Horse Bean(var. equina)for that matter has been accordingly named as it is widely used as animal feed especially horses. Broad Bean(var. major.) is popularly also known as Windsor .
