Editing Pea (section)

=== Edible-pod peas ===
[[File:Peas for stir fry.jpg|thumb|upright|Handful of pea pods for a [[stir fry]]]]

Some peas lack the tough membrane inside the pod wall and have tender edible pods.<ref name="Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie-1883">{{cite wikisource|title=Les_Plantes_potagères|wslanguage=fr|author=Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie|year=1883|chapter=Pois}}</ref> There are two main types:<ref>{{Citation|last1=Myers|first1=James R.|title=Origin, History, and Genetic Improvement of the Snap Pea ( Pisum sativum L.)|date=2010-06-22|work=Plant Breeding Reviews|pages=93–138|editor-last=Janick|editor-first=Jules|publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Inc.|language=en|doi=10.1002/9780470650196.ch3|isbn=978-0-470-65019-6|last2=Baggett|first2=James R.|last3=Lamborn|first3=Calvin}}</ref>
* [[Snow pea]]s have flat pods with thin pod walls. Pods and seeds are eaten when they are very young.
* [[Snap pea]]s or sugar snap peas have rounded pods with thick pod walls. Pods and seeds are eaten before maturity.

The name '''sugar pea''' can include both types<ref name="Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie-1883" /> or be synonymous with either snow peas or snap peas in different dictionaries.<ref>{{Cite dictionary|url=https://www.thefreedictionary.com/sugar+pea|title=sugar pea|encyclopedia=TheFreeDictionary.com|access-date=2020-02-15}}</ref> Likewise '''mangetout''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|m|ɒ̃|ʒ|ˌ|t|uː}}; from {{langx|fr|pois mange-tout}}, 'eat-all pea').

Snow peas and snap peas both belong to Macrocarpon Group,<ref name=JMS>{{Cite web|url=https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/mv109|title=Pea, Snap—Pisum sativum L. (Macrocarpon group)|last=Stephens|first=James M.|date=2018-11-05|website=edis.ifas.ufl.edu|language=en|access-date=2020-02-15|archive-date=14 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200214125729/http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/mv109|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite dictionary|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snow+pea|title=Definition of SNOW PEA|encyclopedia=www.merriam-webster.com|language=en|access-date=2020-02-15}}</ref> a [[cultivar group]] based on the variety ''Pisum sativum'' var. ''macrocarpum'' <small>[[Ser.]]</small> named in 1825.<ref name="Candolle-1825">{{Cite book|last=Candolle|first=Augustin Pyramus de|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/7151|title=Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis, sive, Enumeratio contracta ordinum generum specierumque plantarum huc usque cognitarium, juxta methodi naturalis, normas digesta|date=1825|publisher=Sumptibus Sociorum Treuttel et Würtz|volume=2|location=Paris}}</ref> It was described as having very compressed non-leathery edible pods in the original publication.

The [[scientific name]] ''Pisum sativum'' var. ''saccharatum'' <small>Ser.</small> is often misused for snow peas. The variety under this name was described as having sub-leathery and compressed-[[terete]] pods and a French name of ''petit pois''.<ref name="Candolle-1825" /> The description is inconsistent with the appearance of snow peas, and therefore botanists have replaced this name with ''Pisum sativum'' var. ''macrocarpum.''<ref>{{GRIN|name=''Pisum sativum'' L. subsp. ''sativum'' var. ''macrocarpum'' Ser.|id=319442| access-date=15 February 2020}}</ref>