Clitoria ternatea.

Clitoria ternatea Linn. Leguminosae. Butterfly Pea.

Mountains of Madagascar and Mauritius. In the Philippines, the pods are sometimes eaten. In Amboina, the flowers are used to tinge boiled rice a cerulean color.


Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World, 1919, was edited by U. P. Hedrick.