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Chinese Croton

Excoecaria cochinchinensis

Photo by SukanyaDatta
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Field Notes

Description:

Top or dorsal surface is green, ventral or undersurface is bright red.

Habitat:

Growing wild by the side of a waste water channel that I pass twice a day. Stopped right alongside this plant because of a traffic signal and photographed it through the window glass.

Notes:

I am quite surprised that what appears to be a garden plant is growing wild, without any one caring for it by the side of a waste water channel.

Species ID Suggestions

Chinese Croton

Excoecaria cochinchinensis

Comments (1)

Thank you, Jonathan Hiew...how nice to have an ID so quickly. Thanks again.
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PublishedAugust 7, 2014

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