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Latin (Botanical) name: Chrozophora tinctoria (L.) A. Juss. ex Spreng.

Family: Euphorbiaceae.

Common name: Croton, Faqqoos el-homaar.

Origin: Egypt

Plant description:

EUPHORBIACEAE A. Juss. Flowers otherwise. Plant with stellate hairs.

CHROZOPHORA Neck. ex A. Juss. Herbs or undershrubs covered with stellate indumentum. Flowers in spike-like racemes, upwards numerous sessile male flowers, below a few pedicelled female flowers. Stamens 4-15 with filaments joined into a column. Ovary 3-celled with 3 bifid or parted styles, cells 1-seeded.

Capsule glabrous, scaly, tubercled, stamens 4-10 (rarely up to 12), in 1-2 whorls. Seeds scabrous-tubercled, fruit-pedicels elongated reflexed. Annual herbs. Stamens 10 (rarely 11-12), leaves thinly hairy, repand-dentate.

CHROZOPHORA TINCTORIA (L.) A. Juss. ex Spreng. : Leaves thin-woolly, rhombical or triangular, mostly obtuse and repand-dentate. (Ann.).

Source: STUDENTS’ FLORA OF EGYPT second edition, by VIVI TÄCKHOLM, D. Sc. (Stockholm) Professor of Systematic Botany, Faculty of Science, Cairo University. Published by Cairo University. Printed by COOPERATIVE PRINTING COMPANY Beirut, 1974.

Propagation: Fruits (seeds). Annual herb in Upper Egypt.

Last Update February 11^th, 2002.

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