Dyer’s Litmus / عبَّاد الشَّمس الصَّباغي

عبَّاد الشَّمس النيلي / غبيرة / Turnsole / Dyer’s Croton / نيل / زريج / التنوم الصبغي

Chrozophora tinctoria (L.) A.Juss.

Flowers & Leaves, July. This photo is available under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 4.0 License.

Edibility and Usage

Edibility
Edible
Edible part
  • Flowers
  • Fruits
Preparation
  • Edible Dyes
Blooming period
May to October
Foraging period
April to August
Seed collection period
July to December
Potential medicinal uses
  • Emetic
  • Laxative

Description

Perenniality
Annual
Petal colour
  • Green
Leaf type
  • Entire
Life form
  • Annual

Scientifc data

Genus
Chrozophora Neck. ex A.Juss.
Family
Euphorbiaceae
Wikidata item
Q1984236
GBIF Item
Chrozophora tinctoria (L.) A.Juss. (3054465)
Conservation status (IUCN)
Least concern

Notes

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References

  1. Chrozophora tinctoria (L.) A.Juss. in GBIF Secretariat (2021). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-08-01.
  2. Lansdown, R.V. 2013. Chrozophora tinctoria. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T13579598A14843003. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T13579598A14843003.en. Accessed on 01 August 2022.
  3. Temperate Plants Database, Ken Fern. temperate.theferns.info. 2022-08-01. <temperate.theferns.info/plant/Chrozophora+tinctoria>
  4. Zohary, Michael. Flora Palaestina. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1972.
  5. Temple, Augusta A. Flowers & Trees of Palestine. Society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1929.
  6. Zohary, Michael. “A Vegetation Map of Western Palestine.” The Journal of Ecology, 1947, 1–19.
  7. Ghazanfar, Shahina A., and Chris Thorogood. A Herbal of Iraq. Kew Publishing, 2022.

Citation

Chrozophora tinctoria (L.) A.Juss. in Barari platform (2026). Barari Flora Taxonomy. https://barari.org/species/826 accessed via barari.org on 2/18/2026.

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