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Replaced content with ''''{{PAGENAME}}''' is the common name for multiple plant species, including: *''Alkanna tinctoria'', Tausch *''Anchusa officinalis'', L. {{disambig}}'
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'''{{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''').
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*''[[Alkanna tinctoria]]'', Tausch
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*''[[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]]