hagua

Updated: June 30, 2026

There is another tree called the hagua, whose fruit when green exudes a juice which dyes so fast everything it touches a greenish black, that no washing can destroy this colour within twenty days. When the fruit ripens the juice no longer has this quality; it becomes edible and has a pleasant taste. There is an herb also, whose smoke produces death, like the wood which we have mentioned.

- De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2): The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera