Ricinus communis L.
EUPHORBIACEAE
- Spurge family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)
Taxon Page:
Name: Ricinus communis L.
Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 1007 (1753)
Rank: species
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Common names
U.S.
name:
Castorbean
English name: castor English name: castor-bean
Spanish name: higuerilla
French name: ricin
Italian name: Ricino
German name: Wunderbaum
Grown habit: Tree, Shrub, Subshrub, Forb/herb
Duration: Annual, Perennial
Synonyms:
TAXONOMY
Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Rosidae
Order: Euphorbiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Genus: Ricinus
Species:
Page counter: 2088 ( AVG: 221.1 / 219.791 )
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Ricinus communis
Credit: Photo by Vito Buono - Bari
Ricinus communis
Credit: Photo by Vito Buono - Bari
Ricinus communis
Fruit at Kula, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Ricinus communis
With Corythucha gossypii at Kahului, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Ricinus communis
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Ricinus communis
Steve Hurst - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image
Ricinus communis
Habit at Kula, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Ricinus communis
Flowers and fruit at Kahului, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Ricinus communis
Credit: Photo by Giuliano Campus
Ricinus communis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Parigi, Vincennes, Jardin botanique de la Ville de Paris/ Parc Floral de Paris, Francia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License
Ricinus communis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Città di Monaco di Baviera, Botanischer Garten München-Nymphenburg ., Baviera, Germania, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License
Ricinus communis
Picture modified from Gilg, Ernst; Schumann, Karl - Das Pflanzenreich Hausschatz des Wissens (1900) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.
Ricinus communis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Arcipelago delle Canarie, Isola di Tenerife, provincia di Santa Cruz, località Taganaga, margini dell'abitato. , Spagna, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License
Ricinus communis
Credit: Photo by Pancrazio Campagna
Ricinus communis
Credit: Photo by Pancrazio Campagna
Ricinus communis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, centro città, Civico Orto Botanico, TS, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License
Ricinus communis
Picture modified from Richard Wettstein - Handbuch der Systematischen Botanik (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled 'GNU Free Documentation License'.
Ricinus communis
Credit: Photo by Vito Buono - Bari
Ricinus communis
Credit: Photo by Vito Buono - Bari
Ricinus communis
Fruits at Kahului, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Ricinus communis
Flowers at Rice Park Kula, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Ricinus communis
Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
Ricinus communis
Steve Hurst - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image
Ricinus communis
Flowers at Kanaha Beach streamside, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Ricinus communis
Fruits at Auwahi, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Ricinus communis
Female and male flowers at Waiehu Beach Park, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Ricinus communis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Parigi, Vincennes, Jardin botanique de la Ville de Paris/ Parc Floral de Paris, Francia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License
Ricinus communis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Barcellona, Orto Botanico., Catalogna, Spagna, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License
Ricinus communis
Credit: Photo by Giuliano Campus
Ricinus communis
Credit: Photo by Giuliano Campus
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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AL, AZ, CA, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IL, KS, LA, MA, MD, MI, MO, MS, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA), USA+ (PR, VI)
Map for Ricinus communis L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA
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