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Charcos, Puntarenas, Costa Rica

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Charcos, Puntarenas, Costa Rica

Immature fruit.

Charcos, Puntarenas, Costa Rica

This Huito or Genipopo fruit is edible and also used as a body paint as it stains skin. Widespread in the Neotropics. Photo from eastern Bolivia.

Madre de Dios, Peru

Foto: Estao Ecolgica guas Emendadas, DF.

Immature fruit, slowly oxydizing and with the blue pigment showing. The pigment is used by American Indians as a blue-black body paint.

Charcos, Puntarenas, Costa Rica

Immature fruit.

Oxydizing effects 24 hrs later.

Madre de Dios, Peru

Charcos, Puntarenas, Costa Rica

Vascular Plants of the Osa Peninsula, Costa Ricasweetgum.nybg.org/osa/index.phpLos Charcos de Osawww.osaresearch.org/RA#14149

Immature fruit.

Vascular Plants of the Osa Peninsula, Costa Ricasweetgum.nybg.org/osa/index.phpLos Charcos de Osawww.osaresearch.org/RA#14149

Vascular Plants of the Osa Peninsula, Costa Ricasweetgum.nybg.org/osa/index.phpLos Charcos de Osawww.osaresearch.org/RA#14149

Vascular Plants of the Osa Peninsula, Costa Ricasweetgum.nybg.org/osa/index.phpLos Charcos de Osawww.osaresearch.org/RA#14149

Charcos, Puntarenas, Costa Rica