| Field notes | Siona: "Un-qui-sí". Spanish: "Saratango". Cultivated, cespitose, rhizome-geophyte. Leafy shoots to 4 m high. Flowering shoots from the ground, to 1 m high, greenish at the base, turning red higher up, all flowering parts bright red; fruits globulos, 3-carpelar fleshy, red capsule, fruitwall about 3 mm thick, fruit 2.5 x 2.5 cm, lowticidal; seeds dark brown, isodiametric, somewhat angular, embedded in an orange mass. Uses: The orange mass surrounding the seeds is eaten after the seeds have been extracted and the mass has been boiled. Eaten with salt. The same orange mass is also used for colouring food stuff. Considered to be a hative "Siona-plant" by Victoriano Criollo. |
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