Indigo dye traditionally comes from the leaves of the indigo plant, which is a bushy legume. It has been used for dyeing for more than 4,000 years. The scientific name for one variety is Indigofera decora.
Anil is a source of indigo.
The indigo dye plant is used to create beautiful blue colors. The chemical responsible for the beautiful blue color is indigotin. Indigo from plants has been replaced by synthetic blue colors in recent times due to the ease of processing.
The indigo Flowering plant is ANIL
For a long period of time, the primary commercial indigo species in Asia was true indigo, scientific name Indigofera tinctoria, also known as Indigofera sumatrana.
But In Central and South America the two species Indigofera suffruticosa, known as Añil, and Indigofera arrecta became very popular sources
(For Telegraph crossword - Anil, found primarily in southeast asia)
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Asian plants, mostly Indigofera tinctoria (aka Indigofera sumatrana) were the original source for the dye, with several thousand square kilometers of the plants grown in India around 1900.
A variant found in the Americas is Indigofera suffruticosa, known as añil in the West Indies. The name for now-synthetic aniline dyes comes from this name.
Indigo dye comes from Indigofera tinctoria a sub-shrub native to the East Indies.
The Indigo plant's name is Indigofera.
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Indigo is a deep blue purple color. It is also the name of a dye that is derived from the indigo plant.
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It has not, 'indigo' is a colour named after the purple dye derived from the plant Indigofera tinctori.
indigo was the plants name
It is a blue bird with some black feathers on the wings.
Indigo plant leaves are used for dying cotton.
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A dye is extracted from indigo plant leaves for dyeing cotton yarn.