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Post by Hristo on Sept 10, 2011 15:22:41 GMT -5
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Post by blueadzuki on Sept 10, 2011 18:47:17 GMT -5
I'm almost sure it is.
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Post by samyaza on Jun 18, 2012 6:56:24 GMT -5
I make this topic go up again because if found a huge wild population of L. tuberosus yesterday. The soil here is lime/clay with great variations on fairly short distances, typical of a geologic cuesta, but the place where I found them is next to a field my family owns : very heavy, suffocating, clay rich, whereas this species is said to grow in very lime rich soils. I took pictures of them, along with a lot of wild alfalfa and meadow salsify (Tragopogon pratensis). Here are pictures :     The leaves are even much smaller than they look ! About V. amphicarpa : I already noticed a species of vetch with very narrow leaves and elongated flowers which could be V. amphicarpa but never looked for the seeds pods. I'll look after them for seeds and try to dig some tubers up this fall. |
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Post by samyaza on Aug 31, 2012 16:00:21 GMT -5
The more I hear of that plant, the more I'm fascinated. I collected seeds of Lathyrus tuberosus yesterday, in case I send them to someone interested. I dug some tubers up today, or tried so : they always grow in waste land or abandoned orchads, where the soil is extremely hard and dry these weeks, with all kind of roots everywhere. It was nearly impossible to sticky into it or sort them from all that mess. As far as nobody mow a meadow for several years, all kind of weeds invade it and especially this species. I guess it can bear all kinds of problems such as concurrency or lack of anything. Despite all, if you follow the creeping root, you can find some interesting, nut-sized tubers ( and a coin of gold at the end, apparently ). In France, they were called "macjonc", but my grandfather calls them "maquesson" ( almost the same pronunciation ). People ate them during starvations, and old people when my grandparents were young, too. They kept cooking wild stuff, and everybody thought they were just stubborn and senile. In fact, it seems they were right. Nowadays, only wild boars dig waste land during the winter to find them.       Sorry for the coin, I didn't manage to find it  but I tell you tomorrow if they taste good !  |
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Post by steev on Aug 31, 2012 20:24:17 GMT -5
If you find the coin, it's probably the one I lost; please send it on.
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Post by mayz on Sept 3, 2012 9:22:35 GMT -5
Lathyrus tuberosus is common here and weedy in several places
I have to try to taste it this autumn
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Post by dalancarter on Oct 23, 2012 15:48:16 GMT -5
Is anyone else worried that we haven't heard from Samyaza since he said he would try the tubers the next day?! :-)
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Post by samyaza on Oct 25, 2012 14:41:40 GMT -5
;D I forgot to give an answer.
They were fairly good ! In fact, most of them at that time were very floury with a good taste of chestnut or something like that.
But there was a tuber with a totally different texture : tender, aqueous and sweet, a bit like a Jerusalem artichoke with a different taste.
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Post by Hristo on Oct 27, 2012 13:10:01 GMT -5
This year I found out that tuberous pea grows around here. I collected some seeds if someone is interested. Last year I planted several accessions, but the lesser mole rat ate most  , so my project was slowed a lot. |
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Post by nicollas on Feb 26, 2014 14:50:43 GMT -5
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Mar 10, 2017 23:26:49 GMT -5
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Post by richardw on Mar 12, 2017 2:34:36 GMT -5
I growing Lathyrus tuberosus for the first time at the moment, looking forward to digging it up in about two months.  |
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but I tell you tomorrow if they taste good ! 
, so my project was slowed a lot.
