Indigotier
Indigofera tinctoria
Petit arbuste vivace de la famille des fabacées, cultivé pour ses feuilles riches en précipités d'indigo, teinture bleue naturelle.
Full sunWater mediumPerennial3 months of harvest
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When to sow, plant and harvest
Temperate climate · mainland FranceJFMAMJJASOND
Sowing
Planting
Harvest
Characteristics
General
- Plant type
- Dye plant
- Life cycle
- Perennial
- Growth habit
- Bushy
Growing conditions
- Nutrients
- Medium
- Soil type
- Silty
- Water needs
- Medium
- Exposure
- Full sun
- Hours of sun
- 6 h
- Cold hardiness
- Low
- Heat tolerance
- Good
Sowing and planting
- Sowing method
- In modules
- Sowing depth
- 10 mm
- Minimum temperature
- 20 °C
- Propagation
- Cuttings, Offsets