ASPARAGUS PEA  Red Flower Vegetable 50 Seeds

OTHER COMMON NAMES:  Winged Pea / Square Podded Pea
SCIENTIFIC NAME:  Lotus Tetragonolobus syn. Tetragonolobus Purpureus
COLOR:  Red Flowers / Green Peas
PLANT SEEDS:  Outdoors after frost / Indoors weeks before last frost
PLANT HEIGHT:  16 - 20"
PLANT SPACING:  6" Apart in Rows Spaced 12" Apart
BLOOM TIME:  June - Aug
HARVEST:  65 Days
LIGHT :  Sun
WATER :  Average
Edible Uses: Young seedpods - raw or cooked. Added to salads, cooked as a vegetable or added to soups, stews etc. The taste is said to resemble asparagus. Only the very young pods, when less than 25mm long, should be uséd, since the older pods quickly turn fibrous[183]. Considered by many to be a gourmet food, though it is not a very high yielding crop. Seed - cooked. Uséd like peas. The roasted seed is uséd as a coffee substitute.