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

medicinal plant Medicinal plants, also called medicinal herbs, have been discovered and used in traditional medicine practices since prehistoric times. Plants synthesize hundreds of chemical compounds for various functions, including defense and protection a ...

in the family

Bignoniaceae Bignoniaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Lamiales commonly known as the bignonias or trumpetvines.Vernon H. Heywood, Richard K. Brummitt, Ole Seberg, and Alastair Culham. ''Flowering Plant Families of the World''. Firefly Books: ...

, also used for

cosmetics Cosmetics are constituted mixtures of chemical compounds derived from either natural sources, or synthetically created ones. Cosmetics have various purposes. Those designed for personal care and skin care can be used to cleanse or protec ...

. An orange-red

dye A dye is a colored substance that chemically bonds to the substrate to which it is being applied. This distinguishes dyes from pigments which do not chemically bind to the material they color. Dye is generally applied in an aqueous solution and ...

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