Butterfly pea (Sankhu-pushpam.)

 

Butterfly pea

English:

Butterfly pea,

blue- pea vine.

Malayalam:

Sankhu-pushpam.

Bengali:

Aparojita

Botanic name:

Clitoria ternatea

Family:

Fabaceae

Butterfly pea is a climber plant that bears blue conch shaped inner part above blue or white lower petal. Leaves are green pinnately compound.

This plant  has much medicinal values.

Its flowers are rich in blue proanthocyanidin and also a natural antioxidant.

Butterfly pea