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Fridericia chica

Fridericia chica, the cricket-vine, puca panga, chica, carayurú (Spanish), carajuru or crajiru (Portuguese), is a medicinal plant in the family Bignoniaceae, also used for cosmetics. An orange-red dye called chica, crajiru or carayurú is obtained from boiling the leaves.[2] It is used by some native South American peoples to stain the skin.[3]

A Mura chief with his face painted with the chica dye

References

  1. ^ "Fridericia chica (Bonpl.) L.G.Lohmann — The Plant List". theplantlist.org. Retrieved 2019-08-07.
  2. ^ Wood, James, ed. (1907). "Chica" . The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.
  3. ^ "Chica (So. Amer.). A dye-stuff" . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.