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Clitoria ternatea, commonly known as Asian pigeonwings, [1] bluebellvine, blue pea, butterfly pea, cordofan pea, or Darwin pea, [2] is a plant species belonging to the family Fabaceae and native to the Indonesian island of Ternate. [3]: 215 In Indian Ayurveda it is commonly known by the name Aparajita.
Butterfly pea flower tea, commonly known as blue tea, is a caffeine-free herbal tea, or tisane, beverage made from a decoction or infusion of the flower petals or whole flower of the Clitoria ternatea plant. Clitoria ternatea is also known as butterfly pea, blue pea, Aprajita, Cordofan pea, Blue Tea Flowers or Asian pigeonwings.
This genus was named after the human clitoris, for the flowers bear a resemblance to the vulva.The first reference to the genus, which includes an illustration of the plant, was made in 1678 by Jakób Breyne, a Polish naturalist, who described it as Flos clitoridis ternatensibus, meaning 'Ternatean flower of the clitoris'.
Trifoliate leaves (also known as trifoliolate or ternate leaves) are a leaf shape characterized by a leaf divided into three leaflets. Species which are known to be trifoliate are listed here. Genera which are characteristically trifoliate are also listed, with species underneath.
After flowering the leaves expand fully and reveal a multiply ternate dissected form with ultimate segments oblong to linear and a few mm wide. At this stage the leaves are medium green to gray green in color. Each clumping plant produces several showy flowers, each with five to eight petal-like sepals but no petals. The sepals are usually ...
A whorl of three ternate petiolate leaves (technically bracts) subtends the flower. The lateral leaflets of each stem leaf may be lobed, giving the appearance of five leaflets per leaf. Each leaflet is up to 5 cm (2.0 in) long, with serrate leaf margins (edges) and branched (not parallel) veins. The flower stalk rises directly from the leaf whorl.
The flowers are produced in clusters with 2 to 8 flowers, but often appear singly. The inflorescence have 3 leaf-like bracts similar in appearance to the basal leaves but simple and greatly reduced in size, pinnatifid in shape. Flowers have no petals, but instead have 5-9 petal-like sepals that are white, blue-tinted white or yellow in color ...
3. Sterile flower s, e.g. in Muscari and Leopoldia, at the apex of some inflorescences. 4. A tuft of hairs at the base of some flowers, e.g. in Pfaffia gnaphalioides. 5. A tuft of hairs at the apex or base of some spikelet s. 6. An axil tuft of hairs in inflorescences in some Poaceae, e.g. in Eragrostis comata. commercial name