Common names (English):

Croton

Local name (Kannada):

Habit: Shrub

Distribution:

Native of Malesia to South West Pacific.

Use: Ornamental

Description:

Monoecious, well-branched shrubs; branchlets with prominent leaf-scars. Leaves alternate, linear, subcoriaceous, often variegated above. Inflorescence: staminate to 25 cm, lax, spicate to racemose. Pistillate inflorescence to 15 cm; outer perianth smaller than the staminate; inner perianth 0. Drupe subglobose, c. 6 cm wide, dehiscing into 3 bivalved cocci.

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