Common name
English: Mexican butterfly weed
German: Indianer-Seidenpflanze
Portuguese: Oficial-de-sala
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae (2635)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2573)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2146)
Order: Gentianales (112)
Family: Apocynaceae (37)(family description)
Genus: Asclepias (2)
Epithet: curassavica L. (1)
Synonyms: Asclepias aurantiaca Salisb., Asclepias bicolor Moench, Asclepias cubensis Wender., Asclepias cubensis Wender., Asclepias curassavica Tawada, Asclepias margaritacea Hoffmanns., Asclepias nivea (Linnaeus) Kuntze, Asclepias syriaca Blanco
aurantiaca => orange-like, orange-coloured
bicolor => two colored
cubensis => from Cuba
curassavica => from or of Curaçao, Leeward Antilles, Caribbean
margaritacea => pearly, pearl-like, like mother-of-pearl
nivea => snow white
syriaca => from Syria
Characteristics
Climate: tropical
Habit: herb
Flower colour: red, orange, yellow
