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a flower that smells like heaven and would happily poison you for lunch.
means A climbing garden plant (Lathyrus odoratus) prized for its delicate, intensely fragrant flowers — and, fittingly, a tender pet name for someone you adore.
from From plain English 'sweet' plus 'pea,' the plant being a fragrant member of the legume family, kin to the edible pea (Pisum). The 'pea' lineage runs back through Middle English 'pese' to Latin 'pisum,' borrowed from Greek 'pison.' The flower's botanical name, Lathyrus odoratus, simply means 'fragrant pea' — odoratus being Latin for 'scented.' The affectionate human sense bloomed later, as sweet names for sweethearts tend to do.
- deadly seeds
- Seeds cause lathyrism, a paralyzing nerve disorder
- royal obsession
- Edwardian England held entire shows for them
- not edible
- Unrelated to the pea you eat
- scent champion
- Bred chiefly for one of nature's best perfumes
- name origin
- Sicilian monk first cultivated it in 1699
sweet pea flower — lathyrus odoratus, ornamental climbing plant native to sicily with fragrant colorful blooms
popeye's sweet pea — infant character in popeye comics and cartoons, popeye's adopted daughter introduced in 1931