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Jatropha integerrima Jacq.
Synonym
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Adenoropium hastatum
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Family
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Euphorbiaceae
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Local name
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English
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Coral Plant
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Flowering and fruiting period
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Throughout the year
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Distribution
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Native of Carribean
islands
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Distribution in kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Grown as garden plant
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Uses
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Potential for
biodiesel production and medicinal
uses. It has been used for treatment of a wide spectrum of ailments
related to skin, cancer, digestive, respiratory and infectious diseases.
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Key
Botanical Characters
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Peregrina is
an evergreen shrub or small tree, with glossy leaves and clusters of star
shaped red, pink or vermilion flowers. The plant has a rounded or narrow
domed form and grows up to 15 ft tall with a spread of about 10 ft. In
cultivation, however.it is usually smaller. Peregrina most often grows
shrub-like with several slender trunks, but it can also be pruned into to a
single trunk. The leaves are very variable, up to 7 inches long. They may be
entire and elliptic or oval, or they may be fiddle shaped, or they may have
three sharp pointed lobes. Leaves are bronze when young and brownish on the
undersides. The flowers are about 2.5 cm across and borne in many-flowered
clusters at branch-ends, almost all year round. Fruit is rounded-trigonous,
about 1 x 1 cm, splitting open. Seeds are ovoid-ellipsoid, 8-9 x 5 mm,
buff-coloured, mottled blackish-brown.
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