Ezelle Family Fish Eye African Pea (Blackeyed Pea)

Vigna unguiculata    Seeds per pack ~ 60  Germination 93% Packed for 2025 This vegetable seems to have a different name in each section of the country. Southern peas are also called cowpeas, field peas, crowder peas, and black-eyed peas. Several varieties have historically been cultivated in Africa, and were transported to the Americas via the transatlantic slave trade, hence a new term, African Peas.  By whatever name you call them, they’re an old favorite in the South and can be grown where both days and nights are warm for a period of 60-90 days. A key ingredient in Hoppin’ John (peas, rice and pork) and part of African-American “soul food” cuisine, called a pea, but it is actually a bean. Both peas and beans are legumes, and both have edible seeds and pods. Brought to the West Indies by enslaved West Africans, by earliest records in 1674, black-eyed peas (Vigna unguiculata) are a variety of the cowpea (also called a field pea) and are part of the family of beans & peas. Cultiva