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David starts with ... My grandma used to cook a dessert using glutinous rice and an egg/coconut jam when we were kids. She used dried indigo blue pea flowers to colour the rice and it would become marbled blue. I know this conjures up a wierd mental picture for a dessert but it was scrumptious! Anyhow, to get back to the point, I think the flower is clitorea ternatea. I managed to get one plant and it actually grew and flowered profusely here in the south. But it is WHITE. Sigh...... Does anyone know if I have a mutant? Will the seeds from this plant produce baby plants with deep indigo flowers or should I ditch the seeds and try to find another plant?
| About the Author David12 Shepparton Vic 7th June 2008 9:35pm #UserID: 1022 Posts: 21 View All David12's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Tran says... Hi David, I have grown a plant with the same function with the one you mentioned. We boil the leaves and the puple colour juice is used to colour sticky rice and cake. It can be very deep puple if you boil lots of leaves. It has been used in Asian countries for many centuries. http://www.floraexotica.ca/Flower-Magenta.htm | About the Author VIC 8th June 2008 9:38am #UserID: 0 Posts: View All 's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author David12 Shepparton Vic 9th June 2008 7:27am #UserID: 1022 Posts: 21 View All David12's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Vic 9th June 2008 8:08am #UserID: 0 Posts: View All 's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Vic 9th June 2008 8:09am #UserID: 0 Posts: View All 's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Justine57 South coast nsw 9th June 2008 4:23pm #UserID: 664 Posts: 11 View All Justine57's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Tran says... Hi Juz, I only know a method where you boil a bout a handful of leaves and stems for 10 minutes and queeze the juice out and use to cook rice or mix to flour. I am not sure if you can eat it raw. I think you can use the boiled juice to make a drink if you like. So it does need heat to make colour. | About the Author Vic 9th June 2008 5:03pm #UserID: 0 Posts: View All 's Edible Fruit Trees |
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David says... Hello Tran, I'd love to try the cuttings! I'll go look up conditons it needs to grow. I guess it's subtropical. I can't find any pakalana vine in australia. But if you'd like I'll exchange some seed from my Clitorea ternatea. It grows fast when it is warm but I don't know if you need to soak the seed before it shoots. If you get any blue ones, tell me! My email is dktchew@hotmail.com | About the Author David12 Shepparton Vic 9th June 2008 10:59pm #UserID: 1022 Posts: 21 View All David12's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author May Melbourne 6th February 2009 1:21pm #UserID: 1661 Posts: 19 View All May's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Melbourne 9th February 2009 1:01pm #UserID: 0 Posts: View All 's Edible Fruit Trees |
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David says... Yes it dies away completely in winter. In Shepparton, my two plants died and never came back but it had a lot of seed pods and so I planted the seeds and some have grown. Now I have to wait and see if they are blue or not. They are about 40 cm tall now but I planted them in October 2008. I guess they might do better in Melbourne as you don't get the cold we get here. | About the Author Shepparton 13th February 2009 4:37pm #UserID: 0 Posts: View All 's Edible Fruit Trees |
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blue pea flower says... Dear David, I just happened to see an article about blue pea flower n Im very interested inplanting this flower, but i'm not sure it can be grown in Melbourne. Also do u seel the cuttings or seed. I bought a packet of seeds from the internet from one of the nursery and some dont even sprout | About the Author blue pea flower Noble Park 19th September 2014 7:51pm #UserID: 10531 Posts: 1 View All blue pea flower's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Mike Tr Cairns 22nd September 2014 7:20am #UserID: 8322 Posts: 614 View All Mike Tr's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author David12 Shepparton 29th September 2014 9:36pm #UserID: 1022 Posts: 21 View All David12's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Karen99 Mitcham 2nd June 2015 3:39pm #UserID: 11839 Posts: 1 View All Karen99's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Lissa says... If anyone is still interested in growing the blue Clitoria ternatea vine there are seed for sale on eBay. Double variety. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/171832406923?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 | About the Author Lissa Strathpine Qld 21st June 2015 8:53am #UserID: 3797 Posts: 189 View All Lissa's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author MIke T1 cairns 21st June 2015 8:03pm #UserID: 10744 Posts: 250 View All MIke T1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Bangkok thailand 22nd June 2015 5:36am #UserID: 11594 Posts: 370 View All Bangkok's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Bangkok says... http://www.ebay.com/itm/Butterfly-Pea-30-Seeds-Flowers-Seeds-Clitoria-Ternatea-3-Color-White-Purple-Blue-/251793628588 Here you can buy the seeds from Thailand. | About the Author Bangkok thailand 19th July 2015 8:03pm #UserID: 11594 Posts: 370 View All Bangkok's Edible Fruit Trees |
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