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Lathyrus tuberosus
About
Lathyrus tuberosus is a small, climbing perennial plant, native in moist temperate parts of Europe and Western Asia. The plant is a trailer or weak climber, supported by tendrils, growing to 1.2 m tall. The leaves are pinnate, with two leaflets and a branched twining tendril at the apex of the petiole. Its flowers are hermaphroditic, pollinated by bees. The plants can also spread vegetatively from the root system.
- Family
- Fabaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Lathyrus tuberosus
- Slug
- lathyrus-tuberosus
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Lathyrus
- Species
- tuberosus
- Wikidata QID
- Q162914
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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