Morphological Characters and Qualitative Leaf Phytochemistry of Two Dye Plants, Indigofera tinctoria and Phyllanthus reticulatus, in Water and Ethanol Extracts
Weavers in North Central Timor, Indonesia, obtain their blue to black dye from two shrubs, tarum (Indigofera tinctoria L., Fabaceae) and mangsian (Phyllanthus reticulatus Poir, Phyllanthaceae). Local users often apply one name to both plants, and the leaves of the two species have never been compared under a single ext...