Tuberous pea

[mnjrutherford]

There should be no limit to the number of images that can be added to a post. What happened when you tried? I've managed to add multiple images without issue. Did you get some sort of error message?

[stevil]

I'm using the Attachment option (at the top under the Subject line as I'm typing this) and when I browse I can't select more than one picture (I've tried clicking and holding upper case down but no luck). Is that how you do it?

[ottawagardener]

I put store my photos on one of those online sites - photobucket. I copy the image with the square bracket image code square bracket option. I don't know how to resize 'img' code so I save the picture at a certain size that seems okay for viewing.

Anyone else?

[mnjrutherford]

I upload all of my photos to my blog site. Then, I go to the photo and
right click on the photo
select: copy image location

Then I return to the post page and click on the image button which is the fourth button on the second line of "Add Tags:" section. This creates a command that looks something like this: but without the extra spaces

[ i m g ][ / i m g ] <------ I position the cursor between the 2 central brackets then hit ALT V or paste. That copies the position location between the brackets which in turn allows the photo to be viewed once posted.

[stevil]

OK, so you're both importing the image from an external server. I used to do that but learnt on other lists that this isn't good practice as invariably addresses change, web sites go down etc. This happened to me as I had all my pictures on the SRGC forum externally on Photobucket. For some reason the address of those pictures changed and now all my old pictures are missing. I've reposted some of them but it's a big job... Therefore I prefer nowadays to upload to the forum directly.

Do we agree it is only possible on this forum to upload one picture per post?

Thanks

Stephen

[ottawagardener]

That I don't know. It would suck if I lost all my blog pictures. So far, photobucket hasn't failed me but there's still time.

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[keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.)]

hey, how is this project coming along? I would love to get some seeds if anyone has any they can afford to share. Did anyone have any success crossing these with regular sugar peas?

[Hristo]

I doubt they can be crossed, but who knows! Actually I have not seen seeds on my plants. Recently I have read this could be because of lack of appropriate pollinators, so I may try some hand pollination.

[blueadzuki]

I'm also dubios. The two are in different genera (sugar peas are in Pisum) Tuberous are in Lathyrus. And legumes are not really all that plastic with regards to intergeneric crosses. In fact the only one I can think of is Laburnocystis and that isn't so much a cross as a freaky intergenric grafting gone weird. You might in theory be able to cross tuberous with other Lathryus's like sweet pea, grasspea and everlasting pea, but I'm not 100% sure even that would work.

[xisca]

Is it a perenial pea?
(at least if frost-free...)
Can you also eat the tuber?
Thanx

[orflo]

Xisca,
tubeous pea (lathyrus tuberosus) is a perennial plant, the tubers are eaten. The plant is completely hardy over here (Belgium), and resprouts from the remaining tubers in the ground and/or seeds. Tubers have a very nice chestnut taste, however production isn't really big (less compared to apios for instance). Cultivation is easy and straightforward, it needs a bit of rain and can stand some partial shade, it does grow somewhat better in full sun. I never heard the seeds can be eaten (they're very small anyway), I once read flowers can be eaten, I tried a few but they're not really very tasty.

[samyaza]

I just saw the subject and the pictures, I'm amazed. There's a lot of native, invasive Fabaceae here in NE France, and Lathyrus tuberosus must be present.

I talked about it with my father and he said that the elders used to dig a tuberous kind of pea in the wildlands. This must be Lathyrus tuberosus !

I hope the plants are still growing at this time of year so I can recognize them in the wild and introduce them in my garden. It would be cool if they bore seeds so I could breed them for better yields.

[blueadzuki]

Sept 9, 2011 15:34:22 GMT -5 samyaza said:

I just saw the subject and the pictures, I'm amazed. There's a lot of native, invasive Fabaceae here in NE France, and Lathyrus tuberosus must be present.

I talked about it with my father and he said that the elders used to dig a tuberous kind of pea in the wildlands. This must be Lathyrus tuberosus !

I hope the plants are still growing at this time of year so I can recognize them in the wild and introduce them in my garden. It would be cool if they bore seeds so I could breed them for better yields.

While you're out there, there are a few other things you might want to keep your eye out for. I remember reading something years ago about parts of NE france having a type of vetch that produced seed cleostogamously (underground, like peanuts). You might want to keep and eye out for that as well, underground seeds are often bigger than above ground ones.

[samyaza]

Really ? Could you tell me the latin name so I search pictures of that species ?

I'm interested in the tubers and not in the seeds because of lathyrism risk with these species. Be careful !

[blueadzuki]

Sept 10, 2011 10:55:21 GMT -5 samyaza said:

Really ? Could you tell me the latin name so I search pictures of that species ?

I'm interested in the tubers and not in the seeds because of lathyrism risk with these species. Be careful !

I wish I could but as I said, it was just something I heard about once. It was described as a subspecies of the common vetch, so if that was accurate it's species name would be Vicia sativa but what it's subspecies or variety name would be I have no way of knowing. It's just an information tidbit I picked up during a project on vetch.