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Lathyrus tuberosus

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Linnaeus

Common Names

• Earth Chestnut
• Tuberous Pea
• Fyfield Pea
• Earth Nut Pea
• Dutch-mice
• Tuberous Vetch
• Mei hong shan li dou (Pinyin)
• Tuberous Sweet Pea
• Groundnut Pea-vine
• China Klubnenosnaya
• China Klubnevaya
• Chyna Klubnyanosnaya
• Erdnuss-Platterbse
• Knollen-Platterbse
• Macusson
• Tuberous Vetchling
• Zemlyanyya Arekhi

Geographical Habitats

• Algeria
• Xinjiang - China
• France
• Iraq
• Iran
• Kazakhstan
• Russia
• Spain
• Turkey

Natural Habitats

• Riversides
• water meadows.

Flowering Times

• Summer

Fruiting Times

• Autumn

Glabrous scrambling herbaceous perennial tendril vine with racemes to 7 flowers, fragrant 20mm crimson to pink flowers with darker wings, toothed calyx, seed pod brown glabrous to 40mm, tuberous roots, simple or branched tendrils, tetragonal stems, mucronulate leaflets

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Bailey 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• Norton 1996
• FOC
• FOBI
• Bodkin
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus