hello everybody! does anybody know the english word for "cicherchia"? it's a legume.. I can't find it anywhere.

Grazie!

 

Based on the google pictures it looks like a fava bean... is it different?

 

Sì, è diverso dalla fava.

Pare che sia:
grass pea
Indian pea
khesari

Ma non ne sono sicura...

 

According to Wikipedia:

Lathyrus sativus

blue sweet pea, chickling vetch, Indian pea, Indian vetch, white vetch.

 

This is great!

I love cicerchie, but I had absolutely no idea how to say it in English. I took one home to my parents in London to show it to them, but they didn't have a clue either (and they/we have lived all over the world).

I like blue sweet pea as a name.

 

My blue sweet peas are flowers. Could the pods they (eventually) produce be edible??

 

Check 'em out and get back to us, CPA!

 

I know sweet peas are flowers and I've always liked that name: I'll have to check this one out....

Yep! Here they are: azure blue sweet peas. Definitely edible! (Not the flowers themselves, obviously....)

 

I found that it could be translated also "chickling pea". but I'm not sure at all

 

Beautiful! Unfortunately mine aren't that azure. I'll try nibbling the flowers. They eat virtually anything that grows out of the ground here!