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Indigofera tinctoria

(Chinese Indigo)

Overview

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Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in Arabic:

El Badara (Senegal), Nil

Common Names in Bambara:

Gala (Senegal), Gara (Senegal), Gara Missé (Mali), Ngala (Senegal)

Common Names in Bengali:

Nil

Common Names in Chinese:

Mu Lan

Common Names in Danish:

Indigoplanten

Common Names in Dutch:

Indigoboom, Indigogewassen

Common Names in English:

Chinese Indigo, Bengal Indigo, Black Henna, Ceylon Indigo, Commercial Indigo, Common Indigo, Digo, Dyers Indigo, East Asian Indigo Plant, Ezo-Yama-Hagi, Frank Indigo, Indian Indigo, Indian Maddar, Indigo, Indigo Sauvage, Indigotier, Madras Indigo, True Indigo, Wild Indigo

Common Names in French:

Indigo Des Teinturiers, Indigotier

Common Names in German:

Indigo, Indigopflanze, Indigostrauch

Common Names in Gujarati:

Gali, Gari, Nil

Common Names in Hausa:

Báábáá (Niger, Báábán Kóóre, Báábán Rínii, Nigeria)

Common Names in Hawaiian:

Nil

Common Names in Hindi:

Nil, नील

Common Names in Italian:

Anile, Indigofera, Pianta Dell' Indaco

Common Names in Japanese:

Nanbanai, Taiwan Komatsuna Gi

Common Names in Malagasy:

Aika, Engilavy, Engitra, Ingetsea

Common Names in Malay:

Tarum, Tom

Common Names in Polish:

Anileiro, Indygo, Indygowiec Barwierski

Common Names in Portuguese:

Anileiro, Indigo, Indigoteiro, Indigueiro

Common Names in Russian:

Indigofera Krasilnaya

Common Names in Sanskrit:

Nila, Nili, Nilika, Nilla, Rangapatri

Common Names in Sinhalese:

Nil-Awari

Common Names in Spanish:

Añil, Añilera, Anil, Ruda Cimarrona

Common Names in Swiss:

Indigo

Common Names in Tagalog:

Malatayum

Common Names in Tamil:

Avuri, Neela Amari, Neela Avari, Nila Amari, Nili

Common Names in Vietnamese:

Chàm

Common Names in Yoruba:

Elú-àjà, Elú-Weere, Sense

Description

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Genus Indigofera

Shrubs or herbs, generally pubescent , hairs medifixed appressed , sometimes mixed with basifixed hairs. Leaves pinnate or imparipinnate or palmately trifoliolate or unifoliolate or simple ; leaflets entire; stipules present. Inflorescence an axillary raceme or spike or solitary axillary. Bract generally caducous , bracteoles absent. Calyx lobes or teeth subequal or lowermost longer . Vexillum sessile or clawed. Wing slightly cohering with the keel. Keel gibbous on each side and often spurred . Stamens 9+1, diadelphous , anthers uniform , apiculate . Ovary with numerous or 1 to 2 ovules, style glabrous , stigma capitate, often penicillate . Fruit linear or globose , terete , 4-3-seeded or compressed ; septate between the seeds. Seeds globose to cylindric , truncate , compressed or quadrate .

A genus with more than 300 species, widely distributed in tropics and subtropics of both New and Old Worlds, with centre of distribution in Tropical Africa. In Pakistan it is represented by 24 species.[1]

Physical Description

Habit: Shrub , HerbClimbing: Not Climbing

Flowers: Bloom Period: March. • Flower Color: red-orange

Size/Age/Growth

Size: 24-36" tall.

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: Annual

Growth

Culture: Space 36-48" apart.

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade.

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9b. (map)

Taxonomy

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Synonyms

Anila tinctoria var. normalis Kuntze • Indigofera anil var. orthocarpa Dc. • Indigofera bergii Vatke • Indigofera cinerascens Dc. • Indigofera houer Forssk. • Indigofera indica Lam. • Indigofera oligophylla Baker • Indigofera orthocarpa< /i> (Dc.)o. Berg & C. F. Schmidt • Indigofera sumatrana Gaertn. • Indigofera tinctoria var. brachycarpa Dc. • Indigofera tinctoria var. macrocarpa Dc. • Indigofera tinctoria var. torulosa Baker F. • Indigofera tulearensis Drake

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Climbing : Not climbing, Conservation Status: Not Threatened, Habit: Shrub , Habit: Herb, Lifespan: Annual , Lifespan: Perennial

Last scrutiny: Oct-1994

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Indigofera

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 43 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

I. amblyantha (Pink-Flower Indigo) · I. ammoxylum (Bois De Rose) · I. arrecta (Bengal Indigo) · I. aspalathoides (Wiry Indigo) · I. astragalina (Hairy Indigo) · I. australis (Austral Indigo) · I. campestris (Creeping Indigo) · I. caroliniana (Carolina Indigo) · I. coerulea (Indigotier Sauvage) · I. coerulea var. coerulea (Surat Indigo) · I. colutea (Rusty Indigo) · I. decora (Chinese Indigo) · I. eriocarpa (Indigofera) · I. glandulosa (Befari) · I. glandulosa var. glandulosa (Befari) · I. guatemalensis (Guatemalan Indigo) · I. hendecaphylla (Trailing Indigo) · I. heterantha (Himalayan Indigo) · I. hirsuta (Hairy Indigo) · I. kirilowii (Chinese Indigo) · I. leucotricha (Silver Indigo) · I. lindheimeriana (Lindheimer's Indigo) · I. linnaei (Birdsville Indigo) · I. longiracemosa (Manga) · I. miniata (Coast Indigo) · I. mysorensis (Mysore Panicled Indigo) · I. pendula (Weeping Shrub) · I. pilosa (Softhairy Indigo) · I. potaninii (Pink-Flower Indigo) · I. pseudotinctoria (Dwarf False Indigo) · I. pseudotinctoria 'Rose Carpet' (Dwarf False Indigo) · I. sphaerocarpa (Sonoran Indigo) · I. spicata (Creeping Indigo) · I. stachyodes (Long Spiked Indigo) · I. stenosepala (Maroampofotra) · I. suffruticosa (Akouveli) · I. suffruticosa suffruticosa (Akouveli) · I. tinctoria (Chinese Indigo) · I. tinctoria arcuata (Indian Indigo) · I. tinctoria tinctoria (Digo) · I. trifoliata (Threeleaf Indigo) · I. trita (Frijolillo) · I. zollingeriana (Zollinger's Indigo)

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Further Reading

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Notes

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Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 21, 2007:

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. "Indigofera". in Flora of Pakistan Page 65. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
Last Revised: 7/15/2012