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- Alkanna_tinctoria abstract "Alkanet or dyers' bugloss (Alkanna tinctoria) is a plant in the borage family whose roots are used as a red dye. The plant is also known as orchanet, Spanish bugloss or Languedoc bugloss. It is native in the Mediterranean region.Alkanna tinctoria has a bright blue flower. The plant has a dark red root of blackish appearance externally but blue-red inside, with a whitish core. The root produces a fine red colouring material which has been used as a dye in the Mediterranean region since antiquity. The root as a dyestuff is soluble in alcohol, ether, and the oils, but is insoluble in water. It is used to give colour to wines and alcoholic tinctures, to vegetable oils, and to varnishes.Powdered and mixed with oil, the alkanet root is used as a wood stain. When mixed into an oily environment it imparts a crimson color to the oil, which, when applied to a wood, moves the wood color towards dark-red-brown rosewood, and accentuates the grain of the wood.Alkanet is traditionally used in Indian food under the name "Ratan Jot", and lends its red colour to some versions of the curry dish Rogan Josh. In Australia alkanet is approved for use as a food colouring, but in the European Union it is not.It has been used as colorant for lipstick and rouge (cosmetics).In alkali environments the alkanet dye has a blue color, with the color changing again to crimson on addition of an acid. Hence, it can be used to do alkali-acid litmus tests (but the usual litmus test paper does not use alkanet as the agent).The colouring agent in Alkanna tinctoria root has been chemically isolated and named alkannin.In English in the late medieval era, the name alkanet meant Alkanna tinctoria. In the centuries since then, the name has come to be used informally for some botanically related other plants (see Alkanet).".
- Alkanna_tinctoria binomialAuthority Carl_Linnaeus.
- Alkanna_tinctoria class Eudicots.
- Alkanna_tinctoria division Flowering_plant.
- Alkanna_tinctoria family Boraginaceae.
- Alkanna_tinctoria genus Alkanna.
- Alkanna_tinctoria kingdom Plant.
- Alkanna_tinctoria order Asterids.
- Alkanna_tinctoria thumbnail Alkanna_tinctoria2.jpg?width=300.
- Alkanna_tinctoria wikiPageID "36940".
- Alkanna_tinctoria wikiPageRevisionID "595608525".
- Alkanna_tinctoria binomial "Alkanna tinctoria".
- Alkanna_tinctoria binomialAuthority "Tausch".
- Alkanna_tinctoria familia Boraginaceae.
- Alkanna_tinctoria genus "Alkanna".
- Alkanna_tinctoria hasPhotoCollection Alkanna_tinctoria.
- Alkanna_tinctoria imageCaption "Dyer's Bugloss".
- Alkanna_tinctoria name "Alkanet".
- Alkanna_tinctoria regnum Plant.
- Alkanna_tinctoria species "A. tinctoria".
- Alkanna_tinctoria unrankedClassis Eudicots.
- Alkanna_tinctoria unrankedDivisio Flowering_plant.
- Alkanna_tinctoria unrankedOrdo Asterids.
- Alkanna_tinctoria subject Category:Boraginaceae.
- Alkanna_tinctoria subject Category:Flora_of_Lebanon.
- Alkanna_tinctoria subject Category:Food_colorings.
- Alkanna_tinctoria subject Category:Plant_dyes.
- Alkanna_tinctoria type Abstraction100002137.
- Alkanna_tinctoria type ColoringMaterial114984973.
- Alkanna_tinctoria type Dye114985383.
- Alkanna_tinctoria type Material114580897.
- Alkanna_tinctoria type Matter100020827.
- Alkanna_tinctoria type Part113809207.
- Alkanna_tinctoria type PhysicalEntity100001930.
- Alkanna_tinctoria type PlantDyes.
- Alkanna_tinctoria type Relation100031921.
- Alkanna_tinctoria type Substance100019613.
- Alkanna_tinctoria type Eukaryote.
- Alkanna_tinctoria type Plant.
- Alkanna_tinctoria type Species.
- Alkanna_tinctoria type Plant.
- Alkanna_tinctoria type Organism.
- Alkanna_tinctoria comment "Alkanet or dyers' bugloss (Alkanna tinctoria) is a plant in the borage family whose roots are used as a red dye. The plant is also known as orchanet, Spanish bugloss or Languedoc bugloss. It is native in the Mediterranean region.Alkanna tinctoria has a bright blue flower. The plant has a dark red root of blackish appearance externally but blue-red inside, with a whitish core.".
- Alkanna_tinctoria label "Alkanna barwierska".
- Alkanna_tinctoria label "Alkanna tinctoria".
- Alkanna_tinctoria label "Alkanna tinctoria".
- Alkanna_tinctoria label "Alkanna tinctoria".
- Alkanna_tinctoria label "Orcanette des teinturiers".
- Alkanna_tinctoria label "Schminkwurz".
- Alkanna_tinctoria label "Алканна красильная".
- Alkanna_tinctoria label "كحلاء مصبوغة".
- Alkanna_tinctoria sameAs Schminkwurz.
- Alkanna_tinctoria sameAs Alkanna_tinctoria.
- Alkanna_tinctoria sameAs 162185.
- Alkanna_tinctoria sameAs Orcanette_des_teinturiers.
- Alkanna_tinctoria sameAs Alkanna_tinctoria.
- Alkanna_tinctoria sameAs Alkanna_barwierska.
- Alkanna_tinctoria sameAs m.096xk.
- Alkanna_tinctoria sameAs Q856964.
- Alkanna_tinctoria sameAs Q856964.
- Alkanna_tinctoria sameAs Alkanna_tinctoria.
- Alkanna_tinctoria wasDerivedFrom Alkanna_tinctoria?oldid=595608525.
- Alkanna_tinctoria depiction Alkanna_tinctoria2.jpg.
- Alkanna_tinctoria isPrimaryTopicOf Alkanna_tinctoria.
- Alkanna_tinctoria name "Alkanet".