Ricinus communis: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Genus: Ricinus
Species: Ricinus communis
Scientific Name: Ricinus communis

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Ricinus

Ricinus communis, the castor bean or castor oil plant, is a species of perennial flowering plant in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae. It is the sole species in the monotypic genus, Ricinus, and subtribe, Ricininae. The evolution of castor and its relation to other species are currently being studied using modern genetic tools. It reproduces with a mixed pollination system which favors selfing by geitonogamy but at the same time can be an out-crosser by anemophily (wind pollination) or entomophily (insect pollination).

Its seed is the castor bean, which despite the term is not a bean (as it is not the seed of a member of the family Fabaceae). Castor is indigenous to the southeastern Mediterranean Basin, East Africa, and India, but is widespread throughout tropical regions (and widely grown elsewhere as an ornamental plant).

Castor seed is the source of castor oil, which has a wide variety of uses. The seeds contain between 40% and 60% oil that is rich in triglycerides, mainly ricinolein. The seed also contains ricin, a highly potent water-soluble toxin, which is also present in lower concentrations throughout the plant .

The plant known as "false castor oil plant", Fatsia japonica, is not closely related.

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Ricinus communis in languages:

Afrikaans: Kasterolieboom
Afrikaans: bloubottelboom
Afrikaans: kasterolie
Afrikaans: bosluisie
Afrikaans: bosluisies
Afrikaans: oliepitboom
Afrikaans: wonderboom
Arabic: خروع
Basque: Akain-belar
Bokmål: lakseroljeplante
Bulgarian: Рицин
Chinese: 蓖麻
Croatian: Ricinus
Croatian: Skočac
Czech: skočec obecný
Danish: Amerikansk olieplante
Dutch: Wonderboom
English: Castor oil plant
English: castor bean
English: maple weed
English: Castor Oil
English: Castor-Oil Plant
English: Castrobean
English: Castor Oil Tree
English: Castorbean
English: Castorbeantree
English: Castor-Oil Bush
English: Castor-Oil Tree
English: Wonder Tree
Estonian: Riitsinus
Finnish: Risiini (kasvi)
Finnish: risiini
French: Ricin commun
French: carapate
German: Wunderbaum
German: Rizinus
Hebrew: קיקיון מצוי
Hungarian: ricinus
Indonesian: Jarak
Italian: Ricino
Japanese: トウゴマ
Japanese: ヒマ
Kazakh: Үпілмәлік
Korean: 아주까리
Latvian: Rīcinaugs
Lithuanian: Paprastasis ricinmedis
Modern Greek: Ρετσινολαδιά
Occitan: Ricin
Polish: Rącznik pospolity
Portuguese: Rícino
Portuguese: Mamona
Portuguese: Carrapateira
Russian: Клещевина
Sinhala: එඬරු
Slovene: kloščevec
Swahili: mbariki
Swedish: ricin
Thai: ละหุ่ง
Turkish: Hint yağı bitkisi

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Ricinus communis: taxon details and analytics

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Ricinus

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Ricinus communis: taxon details and analytics

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Ricinus

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