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Fridericia chica
Fridericia chica
- Botanic Family
- Bignoniaceae
- Author
- (Humboldt & Bonpland) L.G. Lohmann
- Propagation
- C.S.
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- Antilles
- N. Argentina
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Acre
- Amazonas
- Bahia
- Ceará
- Goiás
- Bahia
- Ceará
- Maranhão
- Mato Grosso
- Mato Grosso do Sul
- Minas Gerais
- Pará
- Paraná
- Pernambco
- Piauí
- Rio de Janeiro
- Rio Grande
- Rio Grande do Sul
- Santa Catarina
- São Paulo - Brazil
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- French Guiana
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Leeward Islands
- S. Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Venezuela
- Virgin Islands
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Forest
- riverside
- swampy areas
- coastal
- thickets
- forest margin
- montane areas
Flowering Times
- Jan
- Feb
- Mar
- Apr
- May
- Jun
- Jul
- Aug
- Sep
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec
Fruiting Times
- Jan
- Feb
- Mar
- Apr
- May
- Jul
- Aug
- Nov
- Dec
Large tendril liana or climbing shrub to 7m. Usually 3-foliolate or bipinnate glabrous leaves or with some scattered hairs, to 120mm x 50mm. Terminal or axillary panicles to 220mm long of 37mm fragrant flowers, green calyx 5mm with minute teethlilac sepals, corolla to 40mm long with lobes 10mm, pale pink to lavender pink flowers whitish inside, simple tendrils. Flattened fruit with 2 valves capsules yellow-green to brown when ripe.400mm x 15mm.
Dry leaves ground to make red powder to paint face
Further References
- Huxley 1992
- Mobot
- NYBG
- Neotrop
- FB
- G. Don
- The Plant List 2
- RSNRV
- VOPR
- Botanicus
- Smithsonian
- Kew
- SAFIO
- HUA