Sweet pea

See also: Pea

The sweet pea is a annual Plante of the family of the Fabacée S cultivated like flower of garden, appreciated for its very varied colors pastel and its perfume.

Scientific name: Lathyrus odoratus L., family of the Fabacée S, subfamily of the Faboideae , tribe of the Fabeae .

Common noun: sweet pea, musky pea, odorous gess. of: Gartenwicke, in: sweet pea, be: guisante of olor .

It is an annual herbaceous plant, climbing thanks to gimlet S, which can reach a two meters height. The sheets are paripinnate, provided with two stipulate at the base and prolonged in gimlets. Rather large papilionacées flowers grouped in Bunch S axillaires.

There exist many varieties of this flower cultivated for a long time. One classifies them in three groups:

race of Christmas, with winter flowering, which requires a rather great luminosity;
Cuthberson race, with early spring flowering;
race with flowers of orchis, normal flowering.

It is a species originating in the south-east of the Italy and Sicily. Cultivated nowadays in all the moderate countries.

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