''Fridericia chica'', the cricket-vine, puca panga, chica, carayurú (Spanish), carajuru or crajiru (Portuguese), is a

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in the family

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, also used for

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. An orange-red

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called chica, crajiru or carayurú is obtained from boiling the leaves. It is used by some native South American peoples to stain the skin. Murachief

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Bignoniaceae Plant dyes Taxa named by Aimé Bonpland Taxa named by Alexander von Humboldt Plants described in 1807 Natural dyes {{Bignoniaceae-stub