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Fustic
Fustic is a common name for several plants and a yellow dye produced from these plants: * Maclura tinctoria (dyer's mulberry or old fustic) and the yellow dye produced from its heartwood, principally the flavonol morin. * Cotinus coggygria (smoke tree or young fustic) and the yellow dye produced from its wood, the flavonol, fisetin.
Article summary
Fustic is a common name for several plants and a yellow dye produced from these plants: * Maclura tinctoria (dyer's mulberry or old fustic) and the yellow dye produced from its heartwood, principally the flavonol morin. * Cotinus coggygria (smoke tree or young fustic) and the yellow dye produced from its wood, the flavonol, fisetin.
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