Blue Butterfly Pea Plant

Blue Butterfly Pea PlantLatin name Clitoria ternatea Butterfly pea is a beloved food forest plant for many reasons. It is a nitrogen fixing vine with year round blooms of blue flowers that can be used to make color changing tea and natural dyes. Use acids, like lemon juice, to turn the blue tea to pink lavender. Many restaurants are now using butterfly pea to make stunning blue and purple cocktails. In addition to the flowers, the leaves, young shoots, and pods are all

It also has antibacterial and anti inflammatory properties

applied at the drip line

Not a true Jaboticaba but a close relative

reminding us somewhat of a mix of sugar apple and banana

and is eaten “crunchy”

and will grow well in marginal soils

Latin name - Inga feuillei

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growing vigorously through the warm months

and produces frequently

but just like its cousin

long side branches that hang downward