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
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.