List of plants used

(collected from kitchens and from backyards but also during specific walks in peak picking season)

– onion skin

– pomegranate peel – Punica granatum

– the privet – Ligustrum vulgaris

– the silver birch – Betula pendula

– patience dock- Rumex patientia

– mugwort/common wormwood – Artemisia vulgaris

– Gall Oak, Lusitanian Oak, or Dyer’s Oak – Quercus infectoria

– the ash – Fraxinus excelsior

– the bark of fruitrees – Prunus, sweet chestnut – Castanea sativa, etc.

– the blue gum – Eucalyptus globulus

– geranium, all of them

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– the common hop – Humulus lupulus

– the japanese knotweed – Fallopia japonica,

– the tree of heaven – Ailanthus altissima

– the staghorn sumac – Rhus typhina

– the elm-leaved sumac or tanner’s sumac – Rhus coriaria

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– the madder – Rubia tinctoria and Rubia cordifolia

– the wig tree – Rhus cotinus

– the bois d’Arc  – Maclura pomifera

– the logwood – Haematoxylum campehianum

– the achiote – Bixa orellana

– the catechu/ cachou/ black cutch – Acacia catechu

– the gambier – Uncaria gambier

– woad – Isatis tinctoria

– indigo – Polygonum tinctorium

– indigo – Indigofera tinctoria

– walnut stain

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