Common name: Barbados nut, physic nut
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Synonym(s):
Country of Origin: Mexico to Trop. America
Description:
Uses: Oil used for biofuels.
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USDA Zone: 9a-11
Source: Unknown
Provenance:
Restrictions:
Culture:
Seasonally deciduous in arid locales.
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
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 23 April 2015.
- WCSP (2015). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed 23 March 2015.
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