{{Short description|Species of legume}} {{Speciesbox | image = Ormosia coccinea (Aubl.) Jacks.jpg | image_alt = Huayruros seeds: big, small, and medium | image_caption = Huayruro seeds | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref>{{cite iucn |author=Condit, R. |year=2020 |title=''Ormosia coccinea'' |volume=2020 |article-number=e.T62026741A176099492 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T62026741A176099492.en |access-date=21 July 2025}}</ref> | genus = Ormosia (plant) | species = coccinea | authority = (Aubl.) Jacks. | synonyms = ''Robinia coccinea'' <small>Aubl.</small> }}
'''''Ormosia coccinea''''' is a plant that grows throughout the South Eastern North American countries, and all throughout South America. It produces beautiful red seeds with one black spot covering one-third of its surface. These seeds are used for jewelry and other decorative purposes.
The seeds are known as ''wayruru'' (Aymara,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aymara.ucb.edu.bo/html/diccionario/castellano%20aymara/ap.html|title=Diccionario Bilingüe, Castellano - Aymara, 2002|publisher=Félix Layme Pairumani|access-date=January 19, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304202830/http://www.aymara.ucb.edu.bo/html/diccionario/castellano%20aymara/ap.html|archive-date=March 4, 2016}} (see: ''Pepa'')</ref> also spelled ''huayruro, huayruru, wayruro'') in Peru, where villagers believe them to be powerful good luck charms{{Citation needed|reason=This claim needs a reliable source|date=January 2017}}, and ''nene'' or ''chumico'' in Costa Rica. A French name is ''panacoco'', but this more often applies to ''Swartzia tomentosa''.
Kharisiri, a fat-sucking Andean folkloric creature, are said to carry ''wayruru'' beans in their pockets when they attack victims.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Canessa |first=Andrew |date=December 2000 |title=Fear and loathing on the kharisiri trail: Alterity and identity in the Andes |url=https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9655.00041 |journal=Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute |language=en |volume=6 |issue=4 |pages=705–720 |doi=10.1111/1467-9655.00041 |issn=1359-0987|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
thumb|Necklance made of ''Ormosia coccinea'' seeds with small black beads between them == References == {{Reflist}}
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coccinea Category:Trees of Peru
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