|
Jatropha podagrica Hook.
- Query IPNI
- Common Name: Tartogo, Australian Bottle Plant
- Family: Euphorbiaceae Juss.
- Country of Origin: Central America, Guatemala to Panama, naturalised world wide in tropics
- Habitat:
- Description: Shrub, to about 18 inches, stems swollen and knobby, with bristled scars; leaves orbicular-ovate, peltate, long-petioled, to 12 inches across, deeply 3-5 lobed with obtuse sinuses; cymes terminal, long-peduncled, pedicels red; flowers small, coral-red.
Restrictions:- Poisonous Plant Parts - Not for Human Consumption
Images of this accession: {and/or its current location}
  Accession Data:- Accession # 198700232
- Source: The Banana Tree
- Accession Date: 12-31-1987
- Bench: 1323 - NEO:Amazonia A
- Qty: 1 confirmed on 11-10-2009
Classification:- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: eurosid I
- Order: Malpighiales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Euphorbiaceae
- SubFamily: Crotonoideae
- Tribe: Jatropheae
- SubTribe:
References:
- Personal Communication with Frank Vincentz, International Euphorbia Society - 4 JAN 2006
page generated on Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:36:15 -0500
| 
