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Ormosia coccinea

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Ormosia coccinea
Huayruros seeds: big, small, and medium
Huayruro seeds
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Genus: Ormosia
Species: O. coccinea
Binomial name
Ormosia coccinea
(Aubl.) Jacks.
Synonyms

Robinia coccinea Aubl.

Ormosia coccinea is a plant that grows throughout the South Eastern North American countries, and all throughout South America. It produces beautiful red seeds with one black spot covering one-third of its surface. These seeds are used for jewelry and other decorative purposes.

The seeds are known as wayruru (Aymara, also spelled huayruro, huayruru, wayruro) in Peru, where villagers believe them to be powerful good luck charms, and nene or chumico in Costa Rica. A French name is panacoco, but this more often applies to Swartzia tomentosa.

Necklance made of Ormosia coccinea seeds with small black beads between them


References

  1. "Diccionario Bilingüe, Castellano - Aymara, 2002". Félix Layme Pairumani. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved January 19, 2015. (see: Pepa)

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Taxon identifiers
Ormosia coccinea
Robinia coccinea


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