true indigo
indigofera tinctoria latin

True indigo is a shrub one to two meters high.

The ocean was still there, but now it was a darker, richer blue - the truest indigo Jack had ever seen.

Indigofera tinctoria bears the common name True indigo.

The primary commercial indigo species in Asia was true indigo (Indigofera tinctoria).

Woad was replaced by true indigo as trade routes opened up, and both are now largely replaced by synthetic dyes.

Indigofera (true indigo), a closely related genus - species of which have been used in the production of the dye indigo.

Woad and true indigo were used to produce indigo dye used to colour fabrics blue or indigo.

The dye chemical extracted from woad is indigo, the same dye extracted from "true indigo", Indigofera tinctoria, but in a lower concentration.

Blue pigments were originally made from minerals such as lapis lazuli, cobalt and azurite, and blue dyes were made from plants; usually woad in Europe, and Indigofera tinctoria, or True indigo, in Asia and Africa.

The color is named after the blue dye derived from the plant Indigofera tinctoria and related species.

The Indigofera tinctoria variety of Indigo was domesticated in India.

The primary commercial indigo species in Asia was true indigo (Indigofera tinctoria).

Today, the dark blue dye known as indigo once produced from woad and Indigofera tinctoria is largely of synthetic origin.

So-called "black henna" powder may be derived from indigo (from the plant Indigofera tinctoria).

The common name "blue false indigo" is derived from it being used as a substitute for the superior dye-producing plant Indigofera tinctoria.

Indigo (Indigofera tinctoria).

In Indonesia, especially Sundanese ethnic traditionally use Indigofera tinctoria L called as "tarum" as dye for batik.

It was a primary supplier of indigo dye, derived from the plant Indigofera tinctoria, to Europe as early as the Greco-Roman era.

The larvae feed on Indigofera species, including Indigofera hirsuta, Indigofera suffructicosa and Indigofera tinctoria.

In colonial North America there were three commercially important species: the native Indigofera caroliniana, and the introduced Indigofera tinctoria and Indigofera suffruticosa.

Indigo is natural dye from a plant (Indigofera tinctoria, suffructicosa, or arrecta) that can be added to henna or layered on top of it to create brown to black colors in the hair.

The color of the khillazon dye is identical to that produced from the dye of the kela ilan plant (Indigofera tinctoria, a source of the indigo dye), which served as a counterfeit source of the dye (Baba Metzia 61b)

The sample is a midnight blue with a purplish hue, and this is consistent with both the dye source of Murex as well as the darker blue, almost violet color indigo (Indigofera tinctoria), which is said to be indistinguishable from Tekhelet in the Talmud.