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Cochineal (Dactylopius coccus)
Cochineal and lac are the only natural dyes on this website that do not come from plants.
Before microscopes where in use, European scientists argued for a long time whether cochineal was a plant, an animal or a mineral.
We now know that cochineal is produced from female scale insects that live on prickly pear cactus plants (Opuntia or nopal).
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