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Chica Plant:


Arrabidaea chica (Puca panga, Chica, Crajiru, Cricket-vine; Portuguese common name Crajirú) is a medicinal plant in the Bignoniaceae family, and it is also used for cosmetics.

Chica is an orange-red dye obtained from boiling the leaves of the Bignonia chica plant.
This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.