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Found this plant at Mbuyu. (Suspicious round leaves.)


Photo from Cuteplantsworld,  Facebook.com. (Suspicious round leaves.)

Author: Ferdinand Albin Pax,1894
Family:  EUPHORBIACEAE
Origin:  Kenya, Congo, Angola, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, Somalia
Soil:  Mix
Water:  Medium
Sun:  Medium
Thickness:  14 Centimetres
Height:  125-200 Centimetres
Flower:  Greenish Yellow
Propagate:  Seeds/Cuttings
Names:  -
Synonyms:  Jatropha pseudoglandulifera Pax, 1910.
Jatropha kilimandscharica
Pax & K. Hoffm. 1910.
Jatropha messinica
E.A. Bruce, 1951.

This member of the Euphorbiaceae family was described by Ferdinand Albin Pax in 1894. It is found in Kenya, Congo, Angola, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Somalia and South Africa, growing in a well drained soil with some water and some sun. The stem can grow to fourteen centimetres in diameter and from 125 to 200 centimeters height. The flowers are greenish yellow.  

The genera name from the Greek words ἰατρός; iatros, meaning 'physician', and τροφή; trophe meaning 'nutrition', as to medicinal uses. The species name means 'spike-like, or disposed on a spike.


A wild plant by B.T. Wursten, Zimbabweflora.co.zw.