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Baliospermum solanifolium, synonym Baliospermum montanum, is a plant in the family Euphorbiaceae. [1] It is commonly known as red physic nut, wild castor, wild croton or wild sultan seed. [ citation needed ] It is a stout undershrub with numerous flowers.
The plant may grow 6 inches to 3 feet and blooms April through September. [5] The seeds are black. [9] The plant prefers full sun, dry conditions, and poor soil. [8] The plant can have a bushy appearance with a flattened top. Dwarf plants may instead, grow to than 6" tall. Croton monanthogynus provides food for wildlife.
Croton wigginsii is spreading shrub approaches a meter-3 feet in height. Its sparse foliage is made up of long oval-shaped leaves covered in a coating of white hairs. It is dioecious, with male plants bearing staminate flowers with thready stamens and female plants bearing pistillate flowers composed of the rounded immature fruits.
A fast-growing tree, croton grows up to 36 meters high and reaches maturity after five to seven years. Croton is commonly found in forests and on rural farms as a boundary tree. It is a drought-resistant tree that can survive in harsh climatic conditions and is not browsed by animals. It is a dominant upper canopy tree with a flat crown.
Croton is an extensive plant genus in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae. The plants of this genus were described and introduced to Europeans by Georg Eberhard Rumphius . The common names for this genus are rushfoil and croton , but the latter also refers to Codiaeum variegatum .
Croton hancei, a species of Croton endemic to Hong Kong; Caperonia, a genus of plants of the family Euphorbiaceae commonly known as "false croton" Codiaeum variegatum, an ornamental plant in the genus Codiaeum, formerly classified in the genus Croton, and commonly called "croton" German cockroach (Blattella germanica), known as the Croton bug
Banana plants require full sun, heat and humidity and should be sheltered from the wind when planted outside, like this one in Hayesville.
Croton californicus is a species of croton known by the common name California croton. This plant is native to California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and Baja California, where it grows in the deserts and along the coastline. This plant is a perennial or small shrub not exceeding a meter in height.