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Soup pea. Commonly used to make mushy peas in Great Britain. Shorter climbing plants have white flowers and 1-2 basal branches. Straight pods are yellow-green in color and measure 3-3.5 inches wide and about 0.5 inches wide. Pods in clusters up to 2. Large blocky seeds are buff to slightly green in color and wrinkled. Soup peas are big, plump and smooth with a mild pea flavor. Later maturing and very high productivity when grown in 2016 at Heritage Farm. A variety by this name has been exchanged in the SSE Yearbook Exchange for at least 20 years. SSE Accession # 115008