These are wild peas, Pisum sativum. They grow all over the island, and very pretty they are too. The flowers are edible, but I don’t know if the peas themselves are. Certainly sweet peas are poisonous.
Wild Peas
These are wild peas, Pisum sativum. They grow all over the island, and very pretty they are too. The flowers are edible, but I don’t know if the peas themselves are. Certainly sweet peas are poisonous.
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.
They’re beautiful! I’ve never seen a perennial pea with such a vivid colour.