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| {{Taxobox | | '''{{PAGENAME}}''' is the common name for multiple plant species, including: |
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| | name = Alkanet
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| | image = Alkanna tinctoria2.jpg
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| | image_caption = Dyer's Bugloss
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| | regnum = [[Plant]]ae
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| | divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
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| | classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
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| | familia = [[Boraginaceae]]
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| | genus = ''[[Alkanna]]''
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| | species = '''''A. tinctoria'''''
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| | binomial = ''Alkanna tinctoria''
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| | binomial_authority = ([[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]) Tausch
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| The name '''alkanet''' generally refers to ''Alkanna tinctoria'' or '''Dyer's Bugloss''' (though it may be used for ''Anchusa officinalis'' or '''Common Bugloss''').
| | *''[[Alkanna tinctoria]]'', Tausch |
| | *''[[Anchusa officinalis]]'', L. |
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| It is a member of the Borage family [[Boraginaceae]].
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| ''Alkanna tinctoria'' is also known as orchanet, dyer's [[bugloss]], Spanish bugloss or bugloss of Languedoc. Its name comes from the Spanish word ''alcana'', from Arabic ''al-hena'', after [[henna]], (''Lawsonia inermis'').
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| Alkanet is grown in the south of [[France]] and on the shores of the [[Levant]]. It has a dark red root of blackish appearance externally but inside showing a blue-red meat, surrounding a whitish core. Its root yields a fine red colouring matter which has been used as a cloth [[dye]] and to tint [[tincture]]s, [[Vegetable oil|oil]]s, [[wine]]s, [[varnish]]es, etc. It was often used to improve the appearance of poor grades of [[port]] and similar wines, and to give the appearance of age to port wine corks. It is commonly used today as a [[food additive|food colouring]] E103 ([[chrysoine resorcinol]]).
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| It was listed in the 1918 U.S. Dispensatory. [http://www.henriettesherbal.com/eclectic/usdisp/alkanna.html]
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| {{Commons|Alkanna tinctoria}} | |
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| ==References==
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| *{{1911}}
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| *{{Grocers}}
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| [[Category:Boraginaceae]]
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| [[Category:Dyes]]
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| [[Category:Food colorings]]
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Alkanet is the common name for multiple plant species, including:
