Pinto Bean Pod

The pinto bean pod is a consumable item in Fallout: New Vegas. It is also used in creating items at campfires, such as mole rat stew.

Location
There are dozens of pinto bean pods located inside the greenhouses at the NCR Sharecropper Farms. Some will be counted as stolen but taking them will not result in karma loss. There are at least three plants in the far southeast, roughly between Blue Paradise Vacation Rentals and Smith Mesa Prospector Camp. There are several plants lining the riverbank in the Deathclaw Promontory in the southeast of the game map. Many Pinto bean plants can also be found scattered along the shore of the river in the bottom right corner of the world map. They could be considered the rarest plant in the game.

Information
Phaseolus vulgaris, the common bean, is an herbaceous annual plant domesticated independently in ancient Mesoamerica and the Andes, and now grown worldwide for its edible bean, popular both dry and as a green bean. The leaf is occasionally used as a leaf vegetable, and the straw is used for fodder. Beans, squash and maize constituted the "Three Sisters" that provided the foundation of Native American agriculture.

Botanically, the common bean is classified as a dicotyledon. Beans are a legume and thus acquire their nitrogen through an association with rhizobia, a species of nitrogen-fixing bacteria.

18.3 million tonnes of dry common beans and 6.6 million tonnes of green beans were grown worldwide in 2007.[1] The other major type of beans is broad beans (Vicia faba), of which only 3.7 million tonnes were grown in 2007. The commercial production of beans is well-distributed worldwide with countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, Oceania, South and North America all among the top bean growers. Brazil and India are the largest producers of dry beans while China produces, by far, the largest amount of green beans, almost as much as the rest of the top ten growers altogether.