page_title: Sapindus
section_title: Uses
hierarchical_section_title: Sapindus / Uses
caption_attribution_description: English: Using natural dyes to color the yarn of Tasar silk.
context_page_description: Sapindus is a genus of about five to twelve species of shrubs and small trees in the Lychee family, Sapindaceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the world. The genus includes both deciduous and evergreen species. Members of the genus are commonly known as soapberries or soapnuts because the fruit pulp is used to make soap. The generic name is derived from the Latin words sapo, meaning "soap", and indicus, meaning "of India".
  The leaves are alternate, 15–40 cm long, pinnate, with 14-30 leaflets, the terminal leaflet often absent. The flowers form in large panicles, each flower small, creamy white. The fruit is a small leathery-skinned drupe 1–2 cm in diameter, yellow ripening blackish, containing one to three seeds.
context_section_description: The drupes (soapnuts) contain saponins, which have surfactant properties, having been used for washing by ancient Asian people and Native Americans.
caption: Soapnut is used with natural dyes to color the yarn of Tasar silk.
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