Camomile tree ( lat. Haematoxylum campechianum ) - a species of trees from the genus Haematoxylum of the subfamily Caesalpinium family Legume .
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Haematoxylum campechianum L. |
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Grown in the tropics . It contains hematoxylin and is used as a dye.
The name of the plant is translated from Greek as "bloody tree."
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Botanical illustration from the book
Flore médicale des Antilles, ou, Traité des plantes usuelles , 1822
The gum tree reaches a height of 12 m. The bark and branches are smooth.
Cirrus leaves .
Inflorescences are racemose . The flowers are yellow, small. Ovary free, upper.
The fruit is a bean .
Gum tree grows in Central America , on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico , in Jamaica and in the West Indies up to and including Colombia . Gum tree is successfully bred in some areas of tropical Asia.
The crushed wood of the kampesh tree is a source of valuable dye - kampesh, or blue sandalwood. Freshly cut wood has a blood-red color (hence the name of the tree), but from the oxidation of the pigment in the air, it takes on a dark purple color, and then a dark bluish and almost black color. From the juice of the bark, black-violet Chinese ink is obtained with the assistance of iron oxide.
Campus wood is used for furniture, crafts, parquet , etc.
- ↑ About the conditionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a higher taxon for the group of plants described in this article, see the section “APG Systems” of the article “Dicotyledons” .
- Kampeshev tree // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.