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Peanuts are unbelievably inexpensive to grow, and are a solid option for nutrition and people tend to enjoy the flavor. So, y'know, sorry to all the allergic people.
Yeah, they grow kind of like a potato as nodules ~~on the roots~~ of an annual plant that's easy to grow as a field crop. As opposed to tree nuts that grow on trees that take a long time to produce, need regular maintenance, need lots of irrigation to produce well, and are more difficult to mechanically harvest.
The two groups are drastically different in what it takes to grow and process them.
That isn’t how they grow.
It’s waaayyy weirder than that.
They start as flowers above the ground and then after pollination the flower stems bend to the ground and bury themselves to make the peanut.
Peanuts are fucking weird
I had no idea. Thank you for expanding my knowledge on a plant that I eat almost daily. Truly fascinating!