26 July 2012

Pea Quiz

What do the Clover in the lawn, the Vetch in the green manure, and the Sweet Pea climbing the trellis have in common?

Warning: the answer isn't very exciting, but I thought I'd give a little botany quiz a whirl.

For a start they are all of the Fabaceae family of plants, which generally speaking means they are nitrogen fixing beany/pea-y plants (which gets explained further in the graphic below).

But wait ... there is another characteristic they share ... *secret squirrel* all shall be revealed in the next post. What can it be?!

White clover
Clover

Sweet Pea
Sweet Pea

Common Vetch
Common Vetch


Fabaceae