The totuma, tapara or morro is a vessel of vegetal origin, fruit of the tree of the totumo or taparo (Crescentia cujete) that in all Central America, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela and Panama generally use the native towns like kitchen implement. It is used to contain liquids and solids, drink water and other applications. The word totuma comes from the chaima.

The traditional use of totumo can be raw and cooked, its best known properties are to treat respiratory diseases.The traditional medicine attributes to the leaves of totumo properties to lower the pressure, hypertension. The dried fruit is used in the production of handicrafts. The pulp of the cooked fruit has medicinal properties, raw excess is toxic. The trunks are used to plant orchids. It is used in gardens and ample green areas. Eating totumo as fruit is used to treat diarrhea, stomach pain, colds, bronchitis, cough, asthma, and urethritis.

The use of these fruits is used to make crafts and crafts to decorate your home, as resipientes, centerpieces, bowls, for lampshades or bases, also as trays, as fruit bowls for hanging, and many other uses, with the shell of Totumo is for the manufacture of jewelery that can be decorated with paint or carved with a tip. These pieces can be perforated and carved, which allows to create infinite designs and styles. We can make necklaces, earrings, bracelets, etc. With this material we will always work by hand.