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Asian indigo, Three-leaved indig |
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| Vernacular name | Indigo | |
| Scientific name | Indigofera trita L., I.cineraria, I. timoriensis, I. rigida | |
| Family | Fabaceae | |
| Season | Kharif | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | A spreading to erect annual or short-lived perennial herb or shrub, 1-3 ft high. Branches | |
| Leaves | Leaves are trifoliolate, about 0.8-2.5 cm long. Leaflets are about 1.2-2.6 cm long, obovate or oblong, velvety on both sides. | Photo Gallery |
| Flower | Inflorescence is 6-12-flowered, 4.5 cm long or less. Flowers are pink. Sepal cup is 2.5 mm long, with linear teeth. |    |
| Fruit/ seed | Fruit is about 2.5-2.7 cm long, spreading or deflexed, tetragonous, 6-10- seeded becoming whitish. | |
| Habitat and distribution | Off side fields | |
| Flowering and fruiting | July-September. | |
| Associated with | Bund | |
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