Jatropha multifida L.

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Photo: Bart Wursten
Gardiner Farm, nr Arcturus

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Common names:	Coral tree (English)
Description:	Glabrous eglandular shrub to 2 m, with milky latex. Leaves long-petiolate, not peltate, deeply palmately 10-12-lobed, the lobes narrow and irregularly lobed, arising from a cordate basal disk. Inflorescence corymbose, borne on a long peduncle. Flowers coral-red; female with larger petals. Fruit 3-lobed to pear-shaped.
Notes:	An introduced species recorded from Zimbabwe as an ornamental and, per FZ, 'often naturalized in the Old World tropics generally'. It is not known whether it ever becomes naturalized in Zimbabwe.
Derivation of specific name:	multifida: much divided
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Worldwide distribution:	Native of tropical America from Mexico and Paraguay
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Image last updated:	Saturday 24 May 2008
Literature:	Radcliffe-Smith, A. (1996). Euphorbiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(4) Page 261.

Flora of Burundi: Jatropha multifida
Flora of Malawi: Jatropha multifida
Flora of Mozambique: Jatropha multifida
Flora of Mozambique: cultivated Jatropha multifida
Flora of Zambia: Jatropha multifida
Flora of Zimbabwe: Jatropha multifida

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Jatropha multifida
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