Bunga Talang

The scientific name is Clitoria ternatea, but commonly known as butterfly-pea, blue-pea, bunga telang and cordofan-pea, is a plant species belonging to the Fabaceae family.

 

Bunga telang is climbing vines which produce purple colour flowers! In Asian dessert, the flowers are used as colouring. It produce very contrast and beautiful blue colour to any dessert. Nasi Kerabu , a famous Kelantan rice recipe get it's beautiful colour from this flowers. The flowers can be boil and it produce beautiful blue syrup! The seed pod can be eaten while tender!

 

The plants are usually planted for ornamental purpose as well as to improve soil quality due to the capability to decompose N rich tissues. The roots form a symbiotic association with soil bacteria known as rhizobia, which transform atmospheric N₂ into a plant useable form. ( information from Wikipedia)

Indian use the flower as offering to god too!