Annuals, Perennials, Tropicals > Ricinus > Ricinus communis > Ricinus communis
Ricinus communis
Castor Bean Plant
| Family |
| Euphorbiaceae |
| Genus |
| Ricinus |
| Species |
| communis |
| Category |
| Annuals, Perennials, Tropicals |
| Height |
| 3 m |
| Spread |
| 1.5 m |
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Description and Growing Information
Flowering Period
| Landscape |
| Can be grown as an annual in temperate climates. |
| Growth |
| Fast |
| Leaf Description |
| The glossy leaves are 15–45 cm long, long-stalked, alternate and palmate with 5–12 deep lobes with coarsely toothed segments. In some varieties they start off dark reddish purple or bronze when young, gradually changing to a dark green. |
| Flower Description |
| The flowers are borne in terminal panicle-like inflorescences of green or, in some varieties, shades of red monoecious flowers without petals. The male flowers are yellowish-green with prominent creamy stamens and are carried in ovoid spikes. |
| Fruit Description |
| The fruit is a spiny, greenish (to reddish purple) capsule containing large, oval, shiny, bean-like, highly poisonous seeds with variable brownish mottling. |
| Propagation |
| Easily by seed. |
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