Re: ID of ?edible pea

[John Savage]

Richard Wright > writes:
>Can anybody give me an ID on this pea?
>
>http://box.net/public/richwrig/dfiles/ClimbingPea.jpg

Interesting. My browser (Arachne) said the file was not any format it
recognized, so I downloaded the file to take a closer look. I tried a
DOS viewer ("Picture Viewer") on it and nothing was displayed apart from a
message that the file was a damaged jpeg file. So I tried another viewer
(dvpeg) and this time the photo was displayed with no problems. So it seems
that there is something non-standard about your photo conversion.

>It grows in late winter/early spring (Sydney, Australia) as a climber
>up to 3 m (10 feet).
>
>The pods, which are reasonably sweet and tasty, have a peculiar
>appearance of being closed by a purplish zipper.
>
>The location is on the edge of a communal vegetable garden but none of
>the community is ever there when I pass by.

Pin a note with your question to the plant, along with your phone number
and a 20c coin.

I've added in aus.gardens to canvass local knowledge. Hope that's okay.
--
John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)

[Richard Wright]

On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 22:37:53 GMT, John Savage
> wrote:

>Richard Wright > writes:
>>Can anybody give me an ID on this pea?
>>
>>http://box.net/public/richwrig/dfiles/ClimbingPea.jpg
>
>Interesting. My browser (Arachne) said the file was not any format it
>recognized, so I downloaded the file to take a closer look. I tried a
>DOS viewer ("Picture Viewer") on it and nothing was displayed apart from a
>message that the file was a damaged jpeg file. So I tried another viewer
>(dvpeg) and this time the photo was displayed with no problems. So it seems
>that there is something non-standard about your photo conversion.
>
>>It grows in late winter/early spring (Sydney, Australia) as a climber
>>up to 3 m (10 feet).
>>
>>The pods, which are reasonably sweet and tasty, have a peculiar
>>appearance of being closed by a purplish zipper.
>>
>>The location is on the edge of a communal vegetable garden but none of
>>the community is ever there when I pass by.
>
>Pin a note with your question to the plant, along with your phone number
>and a 20c coin.
>
>I've added in aus.gardens to canvass local knowledge. Hope that's okay.

Thanks John. I got the info from the group that this is Dolichos
lablab (Lablab bean).

http://www.floridata.com/ref/D/doli_lab.cfm

Your experience with the image got me a bit worried. Before posting I
had reduced it in size by IrfanView. Now I have downloaded to see if I
have problems. Can open it in IrfanView, in Microsoft Photo Editor and
can import into CorelDraw 9. Have never previously had complaints
about JPEGs saved with IrfanView.