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Jatropha curcas - Ripe fruits and seeds - Click to enlarge!

Ripe fruits and seeds; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 4/2004 © Jörn Germer

Jatropha curcas - Fruiting branch - Click to enlarge!

Fruiting branch; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 11/2004 © Jörn Germer

Jatropha curcas - Flower - Click to enlarge!

Flower; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 04/2006 © Jörn Germer

Jatropha curcas - Inflorescens - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescens; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 4/2006 © Jörn Germer

Jatropha curcas - Ripe fruits - Click to enlarge!

Ripe fruits; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 3/2003 © Jörn Germer

Jatropha curcas - Living Jatropha hedge - Click to enlarge!

Living Jatropha hedge; Nsawam, Ghana; 4/2005 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 48
Date of entry: 10.06.2005
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Physic Nut

German: Purgiernuss

Mandarin: 麻风树 (ma feng shu)

Portuguese: Pinhão-manso, Purgueira

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Malpighiales (120)

        Family: Euphorbiaceae (80)(family description)

          Genus: Jatropha (11)

            Epithet: curcas L. (1)

curcas => name first given by Garcia de Orto to ‘certain seeds’ in 1563, meaning unknown

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: shrub

Flower colour: green, yellow

External links

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