Wild Peas

Purple pea flowers
Wild peas, Pisum sativum



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.

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  1. 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!

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