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plant id for pigment
walkabout:
trying to get an id on these flowers, its a vine like plant, only blooms till about midday. they have alot of blue pigment in them, will stain your fingers when you pluck them. also how can i go about making a useable pigment from them? i did some searching but all i came up with was spiderwort, but the pics i found of spiderwort really didnt look very similar.
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Pat B:
That looks like Asiatic Day Flower. I don't know the botanical name though.
You might try placing the flowers in denatured alcohol to see if that pulls the color out of the flowers.
walkabout:
thanks. ive been pruning it to let it spread out, it grows along the front of our shrub and ive grown kind of fond of them.lol for one thing wherever this thing grows theres no weeds so its sort of a win win situation. ive read of boiling flowers to extract the pigments, but it seems like i would need a whole lot of the flowers to do that.
Pat B:
Most folks consider it a weed! I personally like it and it grows well without much trouble. The definition of a weed is any plant out of place! I'm a native plant enthousist so the plants I like most folks consider weeds! ;D
Hillbilly:
Pat nailed it-it's Asiatic dayflower (Commelina communis)
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