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Poster of The Poddington Peas cast. The series features a group of thirty-four anthropomorphic peas, and most of their names not only refer to their jobs and main characteristic traits (similar to The Smurfs), but are also plays on words (typically "pea" sounding like "-py", such as "Bump-Pea" sounding like "bumpy", "Chip-Pea" sounding like "chippy" and "Creep-Pea" sounding like "creepy").
Pea (pisum in Latin) is a pulse, vegetable or fodder crop, but the word often refers to the seed or sometimes the pod of this flowering plant species. Carl Linnaeus gave the species the scientific name Pisum sativum in 1753 (meaning cultivated pea).
The showy yellow flowers, about 1 inch (25 mm) across, grow 2 to 4 together in clusters on the stem. Flowers normally bloom July-September. The fruit is a straight, narrow pod 1.5 to 2.5 inches (38 to 64 mm) long, which splits along 2 sutures as it dries; the pod sides spiral to expel the seeds some distance from the parent plant. [8]
Vicia cracca (tufted vetch, cow vetch, bird vetch, blue vetch, boreal vetch), is a species of flowering plant in the pea and bean family Fabaceae. It is native to Europe and Asia . It occurs on other continents as an introduced species , including North America, where it is a common weed .
A child holding an edible pod pea in Kenya. Snow peas, along with sugar snap peas and unlike field and garden peas, are notable for having edible pods that lack inedible fiber [11] (in the form of "parchment", a fibrous layer found in the inner pod rich in lignin [12]) in the pod walls. Snow peas have the thinner walls of the two edible pod ...
Courtesy of Khloe Kardashian/Instagram Khloé Kardashian and her daughter, True, are living la dolce vita in Dolce & Gabbana. The 39-year-old reality star took to Instagram on Thursday, August 17 ...
The sweet pea, Lathyrus odoratus, is a flowering plant in the genus Lathyrus in the family Fabaceae , native to Sicily, southern Italy and the Aegean Islands. [ 2 ] It is an annual climbing plant, growing to a height of 1–2 metres (3 ft 3 in – 6 ft 7 in), where suitable support is available.