Botanical  Name – Clitoria ternatea

Sangu Pushpam/Clitoria Ternatea/Blue Pea/சங்கு புஷ்பம்

Sangu Pushpam/Clitoria Ternatea/Blue Pea in Tamil which means shell flower.

In Southeast Asia, the blue flowers are used as a natural food colouring agent.

It also added also to rice, tea, fruit juice or cocktails.

The Butterfly Pea flowers are also known to contain a natural antioxidant.

In India, it is revered as a holy flower, used in daily puja rituals.

The flowers of this vine were imagined to have the shape of human female genitals, hence the Latin name of the genus “Clitoria“, from “clitoris“.

The species name is thought to derive from the city of Ternate in the Indonesian archipelago, from where Linnaeus’s specimens originated.