Clitorea ternata plants – ( Butterfly Pea)

$8.00

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Description

Just a few plants in 8cm pots.

This is a perennial vine which does well in moist soil. It has beautiful vivid blue solitary flowers with yellow markings. When the flower is finished the pods form.  They   can be eaten as a vegetable when young and tender. Being a legume, its roots are nitrogen fixing, and it improves  the soil through the decomposition of humus which is nitrogen rich.

Additional information

Classification

Perennial

Common Name

Butterfly Pea

Family

Fabaceae

Maximum Height

approx 3.5 m