Saturday, November 19, 2011

Are sweet-peas flowers or vegetables?

They're both, really. A sweet-pea grown for its flowers is a plant from the tribe Vicieae, as is the plant that we grow for green peas that we eat at the table. The flower is Lathyrus odoratus (L. odoratus); the vegetable is Pisum sativum (P. sativum). They are not quite the same plant, but are very closely related - same tribe, but different genus and species.

Are sweet-peas flowers or vegetables?
I guess they are flowers. I always thought they were vegetables until your question...Good one, check out the link. It shows sweat-pea flowers.
Reply:oh I thought Sweet Peas are Veggies now I learned again. Last year we tried Broccoli and my Sister in law that lives down here told us that our Broccoli was overly done because it had yellow flowers on them.
Reply:Flowers - sweet smelling flowers


Veggies - actual sweet peas





Two different plants, same name.
Reply:Hi Supermoo. Sweet peas are flowers. Seeds from the pods are poisonous. cheers Pendelli
Reply:Peas are `Legumes`, both the Garden Pea, which has edible seeds, and the Sweet Pea which has POISONOUS seeds. Sweet Peas are FLOWERS, purely decorative.
Reply:There are peas that are sweet, but sweetpeas are flowers, and though they make pods they are not edible
Reply:just flowers
Reply:Flowers.





They do not taste good :)
Reply:Flowers, but their seeds are in a little pea like pod.
Reply:FLOWERSSSSSSSSSSS!
Reply:flowers
Reply:flowers


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