Henna

Henna is a peculiar plant and is commercially cultivated in western India and Pakistan, the Pali district of Rajasthan is the most henna producer in India.

Henna produces a red-orange dye molecule illegal. This molecule has an affinity for bonding with protein and thus has been used to dye skin, hair, fingernails, leather, silk and wool. Henna flowers have four sepals white or red stamens inserted in pairs on the rim of the tube.

Though henna has been used for body art and hair dye since the Bronze Age, henna has had a recent application in body art due to improvements in cultivation, processing, and the diasporas of people from traditional henna using regions, the use of henna is by drawing figures in a specific part of the body, as you can see in the picture.

The dye molecule is primarily concentrated in the leaves and is in the highest levels in the petioles of the leaf. Fruits are small and open irregularly into four splits content in leaves is negatively associated with the number of seeds in the fruits