Join us in this article to show you nine edible purple and white flowers and teach you how to identify them with images and tools.
Edible flowers are very popular among people and let you make colourful beverages and tasty salads, soups and other food. If you want to find a purple and white edible flower to design your dessert or food and add a magic colour to your beverage, in this article you can find 9 of them.
In addition, here we will help those who have seen an incredible purple and white edible flower in their beverage or dessert to identify it to add it to their diet. We will show you how to identify these tasty flowers with images and tools.
If you are ready, let’s start.
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In this part, we will show you the image of edible flowers that have purple and white blooms, although most of them have variegated colours in various cultivars. You will find the common names with scientific names and a brief overview of their flowers and leaves shape that will help you to identify them easily.
In addition, we will tell you about the edible parts of every plant and will give you a brief overview of their recipe. You can scroll through images and find your intended flower or make your favourite list to add to your garden.
Let’s dive into them and enjoy the pictures.
Other common names: Starflower
Botanical family: Boraginaceae
Edible part: Both the leaves and flower
My suggestion:
Botanical family: Fabaceae or Leguminosae
My suggestion:
Botanical family: Amaryllidaceae
My suggestion: add leaves to salad and make a chive blossom vinegar
Botanical family: Brassicaceae
My suggestion: Add flowers to green salads or grain dishes.
Botanical family: Fabaceae or Leguminosae
My suggestion: add blooms to the salad.
Caution: Avoid eating sweet pea flowers (Lathyrus odoratus) which are toxic.
Botanical family: Malvaceae
My suggestion: hibiscus iced tea with petals and Hibiscus cocktails.
Botanical family: Lamiaceae
My suggestion: use its fragrant flowers as a kitchen spice.
Botanical family: Olive family (Oleaceae)
My suggestion: lilac wine, lilac and lemon cookies and lilac sugar.
Botanical family: Oxalidaceae
My suggestion: use them as a base for a sheep’s milk yoghurt. Eating a significant amount of this plant can be toxic. So, if you have a playful cat in your garden, it is not a not toxic plant for cats either.
If you didn’t find your intended flower among the above list, don’t worry. There are a lot of ways to find the name of a plant, one of the best ones is getting help from plant identification tools. People used to take pictures of flowers and show them to experts to identify them, nowadays you can take an online picture on a plant identifier tool or app and it will identify it.
“House plant identifier” is one of the best to identify flowers, trees, ornamental, wild and indoor plants. It has a comprehensive collection of plant species. It with its advanced algorithm that works with learning machines and artificial intelligence can identify plants with about 91 % accuracy.
It only takes 2 seconds to identify plants and detect plant disease. Thanks to the “House plant identifier”. The good news is that its app will be available to download soon.
Next time, when you spot an edible purple and white flower in your dessert, take an online picture (or upload its image from your galley) on the “House plant identifier” and click on the button “Start” to find its name. Click here and enjoy this free online tool.
Now, you are familiar with nine edible purple and white flowers including Borage, Butterfly Pea, Regular Chives and Chinese Chive, Daikon, Garden Pea, Moorea Mangy Blue Hibiscus, Lavender, Lilac and Wood sorrel. We showed you their images with names and gave you a brief overview of the shapes of flowers and leaves and suggestions about eating them.
Did you find your intended purple and white flower among them? What was its name? Have you experienced eating flowers? How do you use them? Can you add new edible purple and white flowers to our list?
Have you ever tried to identify your plant with online tools? Do you think they work well? Please tell us about your experience and idea below this page.
Hi, I’m Elaheh. My Academic major is plant protection, and houseplants are my expertise. As a houseplant lover, my house is full of indoor plants and it is my passion to take care of them. Hence, I’m here to share my knowledge and experience about growing healthy houseplants. I am also a plant protection advisor, so feel free to ask me any questions you may have.