On 24/1/08 23:26, in article ,
"Peter Robinson" wrote:

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 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.

;-) 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!

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