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4 colours found.

Yellow Safflower A thistle-like plant whose petals yield red and yellow dyesColour named from nature · 🇪🇬 Egypt +4

Brown Brown HT A synthetic brown dye used in processed foods and bakingDye Orange Argythamnia heterantha A Mexican shrub whose orange seed endosperm colours and flavours foodColour named from nature · 🇲🇽 Mexico

Purple and violet Turnsole A medieval dye from Chrozophora tinctoria, shifting from blue to red with acidityDye

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The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Safflower: AndrewMT, CC BY 3.0, source
Turnsole: Solanum, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Brown HT: Jynto ( more, CC0, source

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