High nutritional value. Annual. Harvesting begins when 75% of the pods have a dark hue. The plants are uprooted and placed upside down on the ground for a few days to dry. The peanut stem is upright or creeping, with alternating leaves that have two pairs of leaflets. The flowers are yellow with red streaks. Its fruit is a pod with 2-5 seeds that usually break on both sides. The peanut is the only cultivated plant that forms flowers above the soil surface but produces fruits underground.