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Lotus tetragonolobus
Also called Asparagus Pea
Winged pea (asparagus pea) is a low-growing annual legume from the Mediterranean, grown for its edible green seed pods that have distinctive longitudinal wings. It thrives in sunny, well-drained conditions and is harvested while pods are young and tender.
Lotus tetragonolobus, known as asparagus-pea or winged pea, is an annual leguminous herb native to the countries around the Mediterranean, although introduced elsewhere. It is low growing, and produces a profusion of prominent deep red flowers, followed by seed pods that are longitudinally winged.
It is cultivated for its edible green seed pods, which are one of the vegetables known as asparagus pea or winged pea.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lotus tetragonolobus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
