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Author Topic: Copaifera bracteata + Indigofera ingrata  (Read 904 times)

Hoy

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Copaifera bracteata + Indigofera ingrata
« 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.
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Re: Copaifera bracteata + Indigofera ingrata
« Reply #1 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?
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Re: Copaifera bracteata + Indigofera ingrata
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2011, 12:31:58 PM »
Hoy,

this link from the german wikipedia-site.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/wiki/Copaifera
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Re: Copaifera bracteata + Indigofera ingrata
« Reply #3 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!
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