Many people are surprised to see the butterfly pea flower, also known as the butterfly flower, purple flower pea that was previously grown as a climbing fence or as a flower trellis in front of the porch, now it is expensive to nearly a million VND kg.
In the past 2 years, across forums and groups of online markets, many small traders are selling butterfly pea flowers at prices ranging from 450 to nearly 700 thousand VND/kg. It is worth mentioning that despite being sold at a price as high as that of precious medicinal herbs, many people are still willing to pay for it. 
On the internet market, butterfly pea flower tea is sold a lot. Screenshots. In the early days of May of the solar calendar, Ms. Tran Thu Minh, 29 years old in Kim Ma, Hanoi started selling butterfly pea flower tea. According to Ms. Minh, this is the second year she sells this flower tea and is interested by many people. 
This type of climbing flower has purple-blue, dark blue-white flowers, but the most common is purple-blue. Illustration. This 29-year-old woman said: “ Butterfly pea flower is no stranger to many people. Because this type of climbing plant is grown as a fence in many countryside. Or many families plant them as a flower bed in front of the porch or in the corner of the garden to keep cool. This type of climbing flower has purple-blue, dark blue-white flowers, but the most common is purple-blue. When I was a child, my house in Nam Dinh also had a fence of butterfly pea flowers and their flowers fell all over the path, but no one picked them up because they didn’t know its use was so great. That day, only occasionally at home with her mother’s five-color sticky rice, she sent her children out to get butterfly pea flowers to create a beautiful purple-blue sticky rice. Or sometimes mom cooks jelly on summer days with butterfly pea flowers to feed “. It was not until 2 years ago, when many people discovered the wonderful health benefits of butterfly pea flowers, that Ms. Minh’s family began to collect wild purple-blue flowers that were not mixed with branches and stalks and were recruited. These are carefully selected to dry in the sun and then dry. 
Many people use fresh flowers to dry in the sun and then dry them to make butterfly pea flower tea. Illustration. Because of selling natural, safe and reasonable flowers, this woman gradually gained the trust of women: “ Usually my house has a lot of regular guests. They also know that this flower does not keep fresh for long, so they often have to dry it and then dry it. In fact, every 7-8kg of fresh flowers is 1kg of dried flowers. Due to being so sophisticated, the price of this flower tea is quite expensive “. It is known that 100g of butterfly pea flower tea is being sold by Ms. Minh for 106,000 VND. Customers who buy 200gr cost 177 thousand VND. Buying 500gr costs 360 thousand VND. And customers who buy 1 kg will get a discount of 680 thousand VND: “ Last year, there was a time when I also sold dried butterfly pea flower tea for 800-900 thousand VND/kg. But this year the epidemic is like this, so the price of butterfly pea flowers is also very affordable so that any customer who needs it can buy it. “, said Ms. Minh. 
Customers buying butterfly pea flower tea are mainly office women. Illustration. This small trader also shared, the buyers are mainly office ladies. They usually buy 1-3 ounces to dye sticky rice, jelly, cakes, jams or brew tea to drink. A few customers often order a kilogram to brew tea to drink daily to nourish and support health. As an office woman with 2 children, Ms. Nga, 40 years old (Thuong Dinh, Hanoi) loves to make cakes and drinks. Therefore, every year she buys half a kilo of dried butterfly pea flowers to color the cakes and drinks. “ I buy half a kilo and it’s enough for a whole year to make cakes and drinks because there are quite a few. The rest, I also bought 1 kg separately for my grandmother to drink every day. 1kg is a lot, use it for a whole year. Because mixing water, just 1 flower is enough for 1 cup of water to drink. As for making cakes or sticky rice, I just bring 3-5 flowers to create color.” , Ms. Nga shared. This person also shared, the market currently sells 2 types of fresh flowers and dried butterfly pea flowers. But buyers should buy dried flowers because they are easy to store and use. 
The price per kilogram of dried butterfly pea flowers is quite expensive. Illustration. In addition, these topics for sale of flowers that used to be fences attract a lot of attention from online users and online markets. Many people think that, with 1 kg of dried flowers that cost from half a million to nearly a million, it is also reasonable because to earn 1 kg of dry is not easy, must go to many places to collect and be dried according to the standards. However, many people do not believe their eyes when the flower that grows in full fence is sold at such a high price.
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