Monday, 31 March 2014

Urucu

We can find the Urucu plant (Bixa orellana) around every rural household in the Amazon. Achiote (Bixa orellana) is a shrub or small tree from the tropical region of the Americas. Which is cultivated there and in Southeast Asia, where it was introduced by the Spanish. It is best known as the source of the natural pigment annatto, produced from the fruit.

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