Bellyache bush
காட்டாமணக்குചുവന്ന കടലാവണക്ക്লাল ভেরেন্ডা
Jatropha gossypiifolia L.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 3.2 m
- wide
- —
Euphorbiaceae
Formerly Adenoropium gossypiifolium, Manihot gossypiifolia
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to Trop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 2.5 m to 4.0 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, redRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (7)
- Papiamento (Aruba)
- Seida
- Chinese
- 棉叶珊瑚, 棉叶珊瑚花, 红叶麻疯树
- Simplified Chinese
- 棉叶珊瑚花
- Javanese
- Jarak Cina
- Tamil
- காட்டாமணக்கு
- Bangla
- লাল ভেরেন্ডা
- Malayalam
- ചുവന്ന കടലാവണക്ക്
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3D model: Jatropha gossypiifolia (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.