social media platforms are flooded with images where people are posting about a brightly coloured blue tea this is a tea made from the flowers of butterflypea plant or aparajita flower it had entered the mainstream market in our country too but in the lockdown it has again become a talk of the town as people are at home and are trying their hands at various thingsenthusiasts are experimenting with the basic tea this lockdownentrepreneur megha gajhbhiye has not only been making this tea at home but has also been taking amazing pictures i read online about this and saw that my neighbours had these flowers so i plucked a few and dried them up the initial colour is sea green then once i added a few drop of lemon which turned it purple then next a squeezed a lemon in it which made it pink and lastly as my mother had diabetes i added honey instead of sugar which made it turn brown shares meghambbs student austin thomas saw this teas picture on a friends status and she too tried her hands at this i love drinking different types of chai right from rose tea to chocolate tea i love them all but little did i know that i could make an exotic tea at home too i remember how i had paid 310 rupees for a cup of this tea in bangalore and this time i could make it at home with my own garden flowers while everyone was making i experimented by adding soda to it and made butterflytea lemonade and ice tea to this home maker tanya sisodiya added instagram is filled with pictures of these eyecatching concoction made with using butterfly pea i hadnt tried it earlier but i started experimenting with the petals to make herbal tea only recently i also found out that these are loaded with health benefits and boost both immunity and metabolism i also tried making blue lemonade with it which not just looked appealing to the eye but was amazing to drink too next i am planning to make some icecream with a touch of blue thanks to the butterflypea plant i have in my balconythis tea has health benefits toofull of antioxidantssafeguards skinhelps burn fatreduces stressa way towards a healthy scalphelps reduce caffeine intakedemand for the flower has increased in nurseriesearlier people would buy gokarnashankhapushpi butterfly blue pea to decorate their balconies and homes because these blue blooms look very attractive and grow very easily however in recent times especially after the lockdown has been partially lifted more and more people are asking for the plant one person is buying at least three plants because many are making the blue tea using the petals either dry and fresh it also has some healing properties which have made it one of the most popular and high demand plants during the pandemic shares dheeraj kumar rakesh rose nursery pune adding to this bhopal based nursery owner deepak shah shares