Fridericia chica

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|image = Flickr - João de Deus Medeiros - Fridericia chica.jpg

|genus = Fridericia

|species = chica

|authority = (Bonpl.) L.G.Lohmann

|synonyms = * 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.

|synonyms_ref = {{Cite web|url=http://theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-317403|title=Fridericia chica (Bonpl.) L.G.Lohmann — The Plant List|website=theplantlist.org|access-date=2019-08-07}}

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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.{{Cite Nuttall|wstitle=Chica}} It is used by some native South American peoples to stain the skin.{{Cite NIE|wstitle=Chica (dye-stuff)|display=Chica (So. Amer.). A dye-stuff|short=x}}

File:Murachief.jpg chief with his face painted with the chica dye]]