Abrus precatorius, known commonly as jequirity,[1] Crab's eye,[1] or crab's eye creeper,[2] cock's eyes,[2] rosary pea,[1] paternoster pea,[2] love pea,[2] precatory pea or bean,[1] prayer bead,[2] John Crow Bead,[3] coral bead,[2] red-bead vine,[2]country licorice,[2] Indian licorice,[1] wild licorice,[2] Jamaica wild licorice,[2] Akar Saga, coondrimany,[2] gidee gidee,[1] Jumbie bead[1][4] ratti/rettee/retty,[2] or weather plant,[2] is a slender, perennial climber that twines around trees, shrubs, and hedges. It is a legume with long, pinnate-leafleted leaves.
The plant is best known for its seeds, which are used as beads and in percussion instruments, and which are toxic because of the presence of abrin. Ingestion of a single seed, well chewed, can be fatal to both adults and children.[5] The plant is native to a number of tropical areas.[6] It has a tendency to become weedy and invasive where it has been introduced
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