Pisum sativum Sugar Dwarf Sweet Green ('Norli')

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Other common names

pea (mangetout) 'Norli'

Synonyms

Pisum sativum 'Norli'

A compact mangetout variety growing about 0.6-1.1m high, with pure white flowers and crisp, stringless, sweet, bright green edible pods, about 7.5cm long, 1.5cm wide, and 0.3cm thick Peas, Pisum sativum, 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 cyclindrical 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.