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Anil De Pasto

Indigofera suffruticosa Mill.

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Indigofera suffruticosa Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8 Indigofera no. 2. 1768.
Indigofera tinctoria Mill. Gard Diet. cd. 8. Indigofera no. 1. 176S. Not /. lincloria L. 1753.
Indigofera Anil h. Mant. 272. 1771.
Indigofera divaricata Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. />!. 365. 1798.
Indigofera Gualimala Lunan, Hort. Jam. 420. 1814.
Indigofera tinctoria brachvearpa DC. Prodr. 2: 224. in part. 1825.
Indigofera Anil polvphvlla DC. Prodr. 2: 225. 1825.
Indigofera Comezueio Moc. «% Sesse; D.C. Prodr. 2: 225, as synonym. 1825.
Indigofera Anil drepanocarpa Berg, in Berg & Schmidt, Darst. Ofliz. Gew. 4: 30d, in part. 1863.
Anila tinctoria vera Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 160. 1891.
A shrub, 0.5-2 m. high; branches strict, angled, strigose; stipules subulate-setaceous, 3 mm. long; leaves 8-15 cm. long; rachis and petiole densely strigose; leaflets 9-15, elliptic to obovate or oblanceolate. acute or obtuse and mucronate at the apex, acute at the base, 1.5-3.5 cm. long, decidedly strigose beneath, sparingly so, but usually glabrate in age above; racemes dense, 2-5 cm. long, much shorter than the leaves; calyx densely strigose, 1.5 mm. long; corolla orange, 5-6 mm. long; pod 1.5-2 cm. long, about 2 mm. broad, slightly flattened, strongly curved, 3-7-seeded; seeds 2 mm. long, I mm. thick. The cultivated plant is usually less pubescent than the wild one.
Type locality: (By inference) Jamaica.
Distribution : Bermudas; South Carolina to Florida and Texas, south to Bolivia and Argentina; naturalized in tropical Africa, Asia, and Australia.
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Per Axel Rydberg. 1919. (ROSALES); FABACEAE; PSORALEAE. North American flora. vol 24(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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Indigofera suffruticosa

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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 America as far south as northern Argentina. This species has been widely introduced to other parts of the world and today has a pantropical distribution.[1] It is an erect branching shrub growing to 1 m (3.3 ft) tall with pinnate leaves, and is commonly found growing in dry, highly disturbed areas such as roadsides and fallow fields.

Seeds of anil
Leaves of anil

Anil is commonly used as a source for indigo dye, and if mixed with Palygorskite clays, can produce Maya blue, a pigment used by the Mesoamerican civilizations.

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Indigofera suffruticosa: Brief Summary

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Indigofera suffruticosa, commonly known as Guatemalan indigo, small-leaved indigo (Sierra Leone), West Indian indigo, wild indigo, and anil, 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 America as far south as northern Argentina. This species has been widely introduced to other parts of the world and today has a pantropical distribution. It is an erect branching shrub growing to 1 m (3.3 ft) tall with pinnate leaves, and is commonly found growing in dry, highly disturbed areas such as roadsides and fallow fields.

Seeds of anil Leaves of anil

Anil is commonly used as a source for indigo dye, and if mixed with Palygorskite clays, can produce Maya blue, a pigment used by the Mesoamerican civilizations.

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