Trichotomine is a bright blue pigment found in the berries of the plant Clerodendrum trichotomum, which is native to China and Japan. It has a novel chromophore structure which differs from previously studied plant pigments. The amount of pigment in the berries increases as they become ripe.
Trichotomine is a bright blue pigment found in the berries of the plant Clerodendrum trichotomum, which is native to China and Japan. It has a novel chromophore structure which differs from previously studied plant pigments. The amount of pigment in the berries increases as they become ripe.
== History and usage == The berries of C. trichotomum have historically been used in natural dyes. In 1978, a team of researchers at Nagoya University proposed that trichotomine was the pigment responsible for the color. This was confirmed in 1992.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).