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

Fridericia chica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Bignoniaceae
Genus: Fridericia
Species:
F. chica
Binomial name
Fridericia chica
(Bonpl.) L.G.Lohmann
Synonyms[1]
  • Adenocalymma portoricense A.Stahl ex Bello
  • Adenocalymma portoricensis A. Stahl
  • Arrabidaea acutifolia DC.
  • Arrabidaea chica (Bonpl.) Verl.
  • Arrabidaea chica var. acutifolia (DC.) Bureau
  • Arrabidaea chica var. angustifolia Bureau & K.Schum.
  • Arrabidaea chica var. cuprea Bureau & K.Schum.
  • Arrabidaea chica f. cuprea (Cham.) Sandwith
  • Arrabidaea chica var. thyrsoidea (DC.) Bureau
  • Arrabidaea cuprea Pittier
  • Arrabidaea cuprea (Cham.) Bornm.
  • Arrabidaea larensis Pittier
  • Arrabidaea rosea DC.
  • Bignonia chica Bonpl.
  • Bignonia cuprea Cham.
  • Bignonia cuprea var. grandiflora Cham.
  • Bignonia cuprea var. parviflora Cham.
  • Bignonia rosea DC.
  • Bignonia rubescens S.Moore
  • Bignonia rufescens DC.
  • Bignonia thyrsoidea DC.
  • Bignonia triphylla Willd. ex DC.
  • Lundia chica (Bonpl.) Seem.
  • Temnocydia carajura Mart. ex DC.
  • Vasconcellia acutifolia Mart. ex DC.

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.
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