Coralbush
ചുരക്കള്ളി
Jatropha multifida L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Little
- tall
- —
- wide
- —
Euphorbiaceae
Formerly Adenoropium multifidum, Manihot multifida
When it flowers
JFMAMJJASOND
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
PetsNo pet-safety information yet
PeopleWikipedia lists it as mildly poisonous (25 Oct 2026)
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico, CaribbeanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from UF/IFAS Gardening Solutions, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from UF/IFAS Gardening Solutions, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from UF/IFAS Gardening Solutions, one source
Not known yet: height, spread, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (3)
- Chinese
- 細裂珊瑚油桐, 红珊瑚
- Simplified Chinese
- 珊瑚花, 红珊瑚
- Malayalam
- ചുരക്കള്ളി
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- UF/IFAS Gardening Solutions, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC0
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.