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The production of the true royal purple dye was a very costly affair, and therefore it was often imitated with a mixture of cochineal and indigo…" - J.
Like its relative the aphis of rose bushes (see wild roses), the cochineal fastens itself to a cactus plant by its sucking tube, to live on the juices.
The Kermes, an excrescence found on Quercus coccifera, is the work of a kind of Coccus, similar to that which produces the cochineal on the Opuntia.
cochinillifera, the Nopal-tree, very much cultivated in Mexico and South America, for the cochineal insect, which feeds upon it.
Its most unusual farm crop, however, is the Cochineal Beetle that, when squashed, emits a red dye used as coloring for Campari and lipsticks.
The coast road east passes the town of Guatiza, where prickly pears abound and where cochineal beetles are still cultivated (see page 19).
It is prepared from a decoction of the powdered cochineal insect, to which alum and other substances are added.
Cochineal, a color procured from the cochineal insect, (or Coccus cacti,) which feeds upon the leaves of several species of the plant called cactus, and which is supposed to derive its coloring matter from its food.
consisted of cotton goods, nearly the whole of which were manufactured from slave-grown cotton, and partly dyed and printed with the cochineal and indigo of Guatamala and Mexico.
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