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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Hoy on December 12, 2011, 07:50:52 PM

Title: Copaifera bracteata + Indigofera ingrata
Post by: Hoy on December 12, 2011, 07:50:52 PM

Does anybody have information about any of these species? - or pictures?

I've got a question on a Norwegian site and it is hard to find anything about them.

Title: Re: Copaifera bracteata + Indigofera ingrata
Post by: Maggi Young on December 12, 2011, 08:42:53 PM

Herbarium sheets and description for the Indigofera    ...
http://apps.kew.org/herbcat/getImage.do?imageBarcode=K000393289

http://apps.kew.org/herbcat/getImage.do?imageBarcode=K000393290

 The Copaifera has purplish wood... so perhaps  there may be a dye/colour  use connection?

Title: Re: Copaifera bracteata + Indigofera ingrata
Post by: Onion on December 13, 2011, 12:31:58 PM

Hoy,

this link from the german wikipedia-site.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/wiki/Copaifera

Title: Re: Copaifera bracteata + Indigofera ingrata
Post by: Hoy on December 13, 2011, 04:39:25 PM

Thank you Maggi; I had found one of the Kew images but not the other!
I think they produce some kind of oil and resin from the wood of Copaifera.

Thank you Uri; I had found that German site too but reading it once more I found a new link!