Sacha wrote:
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!

See "Cultivation and uses" in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupin ;-)

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Jeff
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