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Indigofera suffruticosa, commonly known as Guatemalan indigo, small-leaved indigo (Sierra Leone), West Indian indigo, wild indigo, and anil, [2] is a flowering plant in the pea family, Fabaceae. Anil is native to the subtropical and tropical Americas , including the Southern United States , the Caribbean , Mexico , Central America , and South ...
In Central and South America, the species grown is Indigofera suffruticosa, also known as anil, and in India, an important species was Indigofera arrecta, Natal indigo. In Europe, Isatis tinctoria, commonly known as woad, was used for dyeing fabrics blue, containing the same dyeing compounds as indigo, also referred to as indigo.
The chemical aniline, from which many important dyes are derived, was first synthesized from Indigofera suffruticosa (syn. Indigofera anil, whence the name aniline). In Indonesia, the Sundanese use Indigofera tinctoria (known locally as tarum or nila) as dye for batik. Marco Polo was the first to report on the preparation of indigo in India.
The Maya blue pigment is a composite of organic and inorganic constituents, primarily indigo dyes derived from the leaves of anil (Indigofera suffruticosa, called ch'oj in Mayan [1]) plants combined with palygorskite, a natural clay and type of fuller's earth.
Indigofera marmorata Balf.f. – north-central Socotra; Indigofera nephrocarpoides J.B.Gillett – Socotra and Samhah; Indigofera sokotrana Vierh. – Socotra (Hajhir Mts.) Lotus mollis Balf.f. – Socotra and Samhah; Lotus ononopsis Balf.f. – north-central and northeastern Socotra; Paracalyx balfourii (Vierh.) Ali – Socotra and Samhah
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