Pisum sativum 'Delikett'

RHS

A compact sugarsnap variety growing to 0.6-1.5m high, with fleshy, sweet, green edible pods, about 8cm long, 1.3cm wide, and 0.8cm thick, which are stringless when young but become fleshier and sweeter as well as stringier with age, and can be picked over a long season. Peas are nitrogen-fixing annuals, climbing by tendrils up to 2m high, with pinnate leaves of up to eight glaucous, rounded elliptic to oblong leaflets, up to 7cm long, and usually white flowers up to 3cm long, in summer, followed by round, green, edible, protein-rich seeds, in long cylindrical pods from summer until the first frosts; the pods as well as the seeds of sugarsnap varieties are also edible, as are the flattened pods of mangetout varieties; the young shoots and leaves are also edible.