Family: Aracaceae
Genus:  Caladium
Species: bicolor

Quichua: Simayuca Mandi
Cofan : Ccovitsosina'cho; Aguaruana Shuar: Ushu

Description

Description

Description

Description

Sima Yuca Mandi
Photo by Tod Swanson

Use: “Men apply the juice of the ushu to their eyelids and the barrel of their shotgun before hunting. When game is near the the ushu alerts them to the animals presence by making their eyelids itch.”  Michael Brown, Tsewa’s Gift, p89.

:Resources: Listen to Oral narrative on Simayuca Mandi(in Pastaza Quichua).Narrated by Clara Santi and Recorded by Tod Swanson 12/14/07.:

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