Asclepias curassavica
Summary 4
Asclepias curassavica, commonly called Mexican Butterfly Weed, Blood-flower, Scarlet Milkweed or, Tropical Milkweed, is a species of flowering plant in the milkweed family, Asclepiadaceae. It is native to the American tropics.
Description 5
Subshrub to 1 m tall with milky sap. Stems simple or branched. Leaves opposite, elliptic-lanceolate, to 12 cm long; apex acute to acuminate. Inflorescences of axillary and terminal, pedunculate umbels. Corolla orange-red, rarely yellow or white, the lobes 5-8 mm long, becoming reflexed. Corona hoods orange, each with a needle-like horn 7 mm long. Follicles 5-10 cm, fusiform. Seeds bearing silky hairs, 2-4 cm long.
Diagnostic 6
"Habit: A perennial shrub, upto 1m."
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- (c) Kai Yan, Joseph Wong, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/33623636@N08/5493834105
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- (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepias_curassavica
- (c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/30285972
- (c) India Biodiversity Portal, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://eol.org/data_objects/26331108
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