Accession #: 198700232
Accession Date: 1987-12-31
Common name: Tartogo, Australian Bottle Plant
Family: Euphorbiaceae
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Country of Origin: Central America, Guatemala to Panama, naturalised world wide in tropics
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.
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USDA Zone: 10a-11
Source: The Banana Tree
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