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Contact SupplierWe are offering Natural Indigo Powder.indigo also known as indigofera tinctoriaor indigofera sumatranais a plant that has a blue dye in it. Indigo is grown from seed and is harvested bi-annually. Indigo plant grows to one to two meters high with small green leaves and purple colour flowers. The mature plants are cut off just above the soil, and allowed to dry in the open fields for three or four days. The leaves are collected, crushed and stored. The crushed leaves are pulverized to a powder. Indigo is an ancient dye plant known for the clarity and fastness of the blue colour.you probably have indigo dyed cloth in your closet, in a pair of blue jeans. Jeans are dyed with indigo. People have used indigo alone or in combination with henna to dye their hair black for at least 4000 years.the powder made from indigo leaves is used these days for the manufacture of both indigo hair colour and textile dyes.