Blue Pea Flower

Blue Pea flower, Butterfly Pea flower, Bunga Telang, Clitoria Ternatea is a climber native to tropical equatorial Asia. The vivid deep blue flowers find local ethnobotanical use in  Peranakan food as well as Kelantan Malay food.

It is also regarded as a source of medicine in the Ayurvedic and folk tradition where the leaves are used to treat pimples and pustules; water from the soaked leaves used as an eye wash in mild conjunctivitis; and roots used as a purgative.

A modern use for this protein rich legume is as a 'tropical alfalfa', a low cost source of animal feed, green manure and cover crop in rubber and coconut plantations.

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