Blue Butterfly Pea

(Clitoria Ternatea) 

1 Live Blue Butterfly seedling 7" tall (10" in pot). Blue Butterfly Pea flower is a butterfly attractor and used as a natural food colouring to colour glutinous rice and desserts. The flowers are also used to make teas and are used as a dye.

In traditional medicine, it's used for memory enhancing, nootropic, antistress, anxiolytic, antidepressant, anticonvulsant, tranquilizing, and sedative properties. Its extracts possess a wide range of pharmacological activities including antimicrobial, antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, diuretic, local anesthetic, antidiabetic, insecticidal, blood platelet aggregation-inhibiting and for use as a vascular smooth muscle relaxing property. This plant has a long use in traditional Ayurvedic medicine for several diseases and the scientific studies has reconfirmed those with modern relevance.

Plant comes in a standard 2.5 x 3" nursery pot with a house made high-end soil blend of peat, worm castings, organic composted yard waste and perlite mixed with top grade local soil.

All plants are grown in a green house and are given water only from a carefully calibrated aquaponics system for superior strength in plant and soil microbes for maximum growth.

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