Fridericia chica
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Lamiales |
Family: | Bignoniaceae |
Genus: | Fridericia |
Species: | F. chica
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Binomial name | |
Fridericia chica (Bonpl.) L.G.Lohmann
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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]
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- ^ "Fridericia chica (Bonpl.) L.G.Lohmann — The Plant List". theplantlist.org. Retrieved 2019-08-07.
- ^ Wood, James, ed. (1907). . The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.
- ^ New International Encyclopedia. 1905. .