Peanut is known as "plant meat", with oil content as high as 50%, excellent quality and fragrant smell. In addition to food, it is also used in printing, dyeing and paper industry. Peanut is also a traditional Chinese medicine, which is suitable for malnutrition, spleen and stomach imbalance, cough and asthma, and lack of milk.

Belongs to the genus Arachis in Leguminosae.

Also known as peanut seed (commonly known as peanut kernel or peanut), golden fruit, longevity fruit, Changguo, Fandou, Jinguo peanut, fig, sweet fruit, sweet bean, Tangren bean, peanut bean, groundnut and Changguo.

It contains a lot of protein and fat, especially unsaturated fatty acids, and is suitable for making various nutritious foods.

Peanut is millet. It only takes more than one month from sowing to flowering, but the flowering period lasts for more than two months.

It is an inherent genetic characteristic of peanut to blossom above ground and bear fruit below ground, and it is also the result of long-term adaptation to special environment.