Talk:Rubia

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Textile use: things to do[edit]

There's lots of room to expand the textile uses of madder: traditonal "red coat" uniforms, "hunting pink" coats. Madder was also an important economic crop in Europe prior to the invention of synthetic dyes. Will add as time permits. - PKM 03:24, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Medical Quackery[edit]

The final paragraph in the "History" section seems gratuitous. It could be shortened to "Madder was believed to have medicinal purposes in the 1600's." or some such, using Culpeper's Complete Herbal as a reference. I don't think anything would be lost by omitting the (lately disputed) fact that it is ruled by Mars and its use for "swollen spleen" 75.172.64.61 (talk) 06:21, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Uses[edit]

The Uses and History sections were cut last year, and moved to the R. tinctorum page. I don't know whether that was the best thing to do; a number of Rubia species are (or were) used commercially for dyes (whatever grew locally, at a guess) so there should be something here about it. I've added a summary, but maybe the cut sections should be moved back as they were, and a summary left at R.tinctorum. Thoughts? Moonraker12 (talk) 17:04, 3 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Rubia[edit]

Rubia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It contains around 80 species of perennial scrambling or climbing herbs and subshrubs native to the Old World.[1] The genus and its best-known species are commonly known as madder, e.g. Rubia tinctorum (common madder), Rubia peregrina (wild madder), and Rubia cordifolia (Indian madder).[ 2001:4451:114C:8F00:598E:AA05:BE3:6D65 (talk) 14:22, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]