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Edible Flowers
Butterfly Pea Seeds
Vivid blue blooms for teas and Thai desserts.
฿69THB
Overview
A vigorous climbing vine with striking blue flowers used to naturally color drinks, rice, and desserts across Thailand.
Growing information
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Time to harvest
- 60–75 days
- Sunlight
- 6+ hrs direct sun
- Water
- Regular, well-drained
- Spacing
- 30–40 cm, needs trellis
Step-by-step guide
How to grow butterfly pea
- 1
Soak seeds in warm water for 8 hours to soften the hard coat.
- 2
Sow 1 cm deep directly beside a trellis or fence.
- 3
Water regularly during establishment; drought-tolerant once mature.
- 4
Guide young vines onto the trellis — they climb 2–3 m easily.
- 5
Pick flowers in the early morning when fully open for the deepest blue.
