# Butterfly Pea Flower Tea

> Whole indigo blossoms that steep to an ink-dark blue, then turn violet and pink with a squeeze of lemon. Caffeine-free, and best poured in front of someone who has never seen it.

Price: 15.00 USD · in stock

## About
Pour it for someone who has never seen it. Eight to ten whole flowers turn a cup of hot water an ink-dark blue; add a squeeze of lemon or lime and the same cup moves through violet into pink, the color answering to the acid you add.These are the whole dried blossoms of Clitoria ternatea, the butterfly pea, a climbing legume with a flower so deeply indigo it looks almost synthetic, though the color is entirely the plant's own anthocyanin pigment. Across Southeast Asia it has been drunk and eaten for generations; in Thailand and Malaysia it dyes rice, cakes and drinks the same deep blue. It is not true tea and carries no caffeine: simply a flower steeped like one, closer to a tisane, prized as much for its color as for anything else.DetailsWhole dried butterfly pea flowers, Clitoria ternateaCaffeine-free herbal infusionHow to useSteep eight to ten whole flowers in hot, not boiling, water for five minutes. Bring the lemon or lime to the table and add it there, so the color turns while everyone watches.A little theater for an ordinary afternoon.