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Table 2 Detailed information of six varieties of Strobilanthes cusia

From: Identity blues: the ethnobotany of the indigo dyeing by Landian Yao (Iu Mien) in Yunnan, Southwest China

Local name

Meaning of name

Production types

Flowering time

Growing place

Specimen number

Hong gong gam/gam gong gam

It is planted by their ancestor

Seed

Flowered every year after grow up

Shade

18LS03

Gam lu

Big size

Cutting

Flowered every year after grow up

Shade

18LS01

Gam gai

Medium size

Cutting

 

Everywhere

 

Gam sam

Small size

Cutting

Every year

 

18LS04

Gam nyoyi bu

Gray node

Cutting

Every year

Shade

18LS02

Akha gam

It is from Akha people

Cutting

Every year

Everywhere

18LS05