These are wild Tangier peas, Pisum sativum. They grow all over the island, and very pretty they are too. The flowers are edible, and the original inhabitant used to make gofio out of the tiny peas.
These are wild Tangier peas, Pisum sativum. They grow all over the island, and very pretty they are too. The flowers are edible, and the original inhabitant used to make gofio out of the tiny peas.
This is not a pisum sativum but a lathyrus I think!
The shoots are edible as well as long as the plant grows.
I also live in La Palma.
http://www.floradecanarias.com/lathyrus_tingitanus.html
I think you’re right. Thanks very much!
Wikipedia says it’s also called a Tangier pea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lathyrus_tingitanus
They’re beautiful! I’ve never seen a perennial pea with such a vivid colour.
They were everywhere in the El Palmar valley in Tenerife where I used to live too. Pity I didn’t know they were edible when I lived there!