Bonducella Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Bonducella (Caesalpinia bonduc, now placed by Kew in Guilandina as Guilandina bonduc), the grey nicker or nicker nut, is a sprawling, prickly climbing shrub of the pea family, Fabaceae, found on beaches and coastal thickets throughout the tropics, from India and Southeast Asia to Africa, the Caribbean, and Florida, its seeds carried between continents by ocean currents. Its stems and the stalks of its large bipinnate leaves bear hooked prickles, and the yellow flowers come in dense spikes. The fruit is a flat, bristly pod holding one or two hard, smooth, grey, marble-sized seeds that float for years in seawater and are strung as beads. We extract the dried seed.