What are butterfly beans? What is the effect and function of butterfly bean how to grow butterfly bean flower?

We usually know green beans and kidney beans. Have you ever heard of butterfly beans? Do you know how to grow butterfly beans? If you want to know, take a look at the following introduction.

Butterfly beans are native to tropical South America. They are called butterfly beans because their flowers are shaped like butterflies. Once introduced as a green manure plant, it has been domesticated in south-central Taiwan and is often found in sunny cliffs or bushes in the wild.

Butterfly beans are perennial woody plants of the genus Leguminosae. If the temperature is too low in winter, the leaves will fall dormant. Flowers about 4-5 cm in diameter, blue-purple in color, and occasionally white variants can be found. Although each flower blooms for only one day, it blossoms and blossoms, and there are flowers to enjoy almost every day. Pods grow after flowering and automatically crack when matured in about a month, containing 8-10 seeds. Leaves alternate, odd-pinnate, composed of 3-9 elliptic leaflets.

Butterfly beans like high temperature and sunshine is sufficient, there is no requirement for soil, but it is better to use sandy loam with good drainage, generally sowing and propagation. Because the seed coat is thick, you can soak the seeds in water for a day and then plant them for about 3-5 days. Butterfly beans are taproot and do not like transplantation. It is best to use the direct seeding method without further transplantation.

The seedlings are upright and grow slightly slowly, and only after growing 8-10 leaves will they begin to become trailing, and the growth rate will also begin to accelerate. At this time, the seedlings can be peeled to promote branching and provide climbing for their scaffolds. It can blossom about 65 days after sowing in full sunshine.

The seedlings of butterfly beans must be supplied with higher nitrogen fertilizers such as Huabao No. 5 to promote growth (reference: < how old are the seedlings broadcast by seeds? >), because the roots of adult plants have symbiosis of nitrogen-fixing bacteria, they will produce nitrogen fertilizer on their own, so flowering plants only need to supplement fertilizers with higher phosphorus and potassium fertilizers such as Huabao No. 3 to grow luxuriantly and blossom continuously.

Butterfly beans are easy to cultivate and can blossom in a short time, and plants and flowers are very ornamental. Blue-purple butterfly flowers are not only lively and lovely, but also bring a hint of coolness to the hot summer. But you should pay attention to the poisonous mature seeds and don't eat them by mistake.

The efficacy and function of butterfly flower:

Butterfly flower, also known as blue butterfly, is a natural blue pigment. the bright blue comes from the "anthocyanin" rich in butterfly flower, which is 10 times more than that of ordinary plants. The rich vitamins A, C and E in butterfly bean flower can fight aging and improve immunity. It can also lower blood pressure, blood lipids, promote digestion, cool and detoxify. Help and promote skin elasticity and bone collagen, at the same time, it also has natural health effects such as tonifying brain, promoting brain vitality, preventing stomachache, anti-depression, anti-stress, sedation, relieving convulsion and relieving mood.

Butterfly flowers are good, but don't drink too much. It promotes blood circulation, girls can not drink during menstruation, and it is not suitable for pregnant women to drink, which is not conducive to wound healing for people who have just finished surgery.