Persicaria tinctoria
Persicaria tinctoria | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Caryophyllales |
Family: | Polygonaceae |
Genus: | Persicaria |
Species: | P. tinctoria
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Binomial name | |
Persicaria tinctoria | |
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Persicaria tinctoria is a species of flowering plant in the buckwheat family. Common names include Chinese indigo and Japanese indigo.[2][3] It is native to Eastern Europe and Asia.
The leaves were a source of indigo dye. It was already in use in the Western Zhou period (c. 1045–771 B.C.), and was the most important blue dye in East Asia until the arrival of Indigofera from the south.
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Traditional natural dyeing (Korean blue)
Categories:
- Persicaria
- Flora of Europe
- Plants described in 1789
- Flora of Asia
- Plant dyes