On 25/1/08 17:22, in article , "K"
wrote:

Peter Robinson writes
Sacha wrote:

On 22/1/08 22:52, in article ,
"Peter Robinson" wrote:

So my questions: can you eat perpetual sweet peas?

The peas we eat are Pisum sativum, the sweepeas which bear the flowers we
enjoy are Lathyrus sativus

Lathyrus odoratus?

L sativum is the one with small steel blue flowers.

I think that's the original one supposed to have been brought in by the
Romans - not sure.

which can be very poisonous unless eaten in a
particularly careful fashion.

I didn't realise they aren't even the same genus. Oh well, back to
fending off the mice & pigeons then.

Peter


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Sacha
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Sacha wrote:

;-) They're called sweet peas because they smell sweet and the pods bear a
resemblance to edible peas, Pisum. Would you eat lupin pods, for example?
I do hope not!

Never had the urge so far, but now you come to mention it ... ;-)

Peter