Kapebonavista Asian pigeonwings Butterfly Pea Clitoria ternatea Living Plant with Poly Bag

The Butterfly pea is a creeper with beautiful flowers shaped like a conch.It belongs to the pea family.Also known by other names such as Ciltoria Ternatea,Bunga Telang,Aparijata,Shankha Pushpi,Anchan ,Vishnukanta etc.Butterfly pea flowers come in shades of Blue,White,Purple,and sometimes its a mix of two colors like White and Blue together due to cross pollination there are also double petaled varieties .There are many species of Butterfly pea. Its an easy to grow creeper and helps in turning the soil fertile.The Butterfly pea creeper blooms profusely during the summers. Perennial, climbing herbs. Stems fine, twining, sparsely pubescent, and suberect at the base, 0.53 m long. Leaves pinnate with 5 or 7 leaflets; petioles 1530 mm long; stipules persistent, narrowly triangular, 16 mm long, subulate, prominently 3-nerved; rachis 214 mm long. Flowers are axillary, single or paired in a raceme, about 40 mm long by 30 mm wide, consisting of a standard, wing petals and a keel; colour ranges from white, mauve, light blue to dark blue. Pods are linear-oblong, flattened, 40130 812 mm, with margins thickened, and style persistent, sparsely pubescent when mature, pale brown, dehiscent when dry. Seeds 811 per pod, oblong, somewhat flattened, 4.57 134 mm, olive brown to almost black, shiny, often mottled, minutely pitted.