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Red Hot Cat's Tail

Acalypha hidpida

Photo by mattsilvia7
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Field Notes

Habitat:

This was growing in a garden alongside a maintenance building at the Blue Bay resort in Watamu, Kenya

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Acalypha hispida

Species ID Suggestions

Cat´s Tail

Acalypha sp Euphorbiaceae

Jonathan Sequeira
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Comments (1)
ceherzog
I've always heard it called Chenille Plant, Acalypha hispida. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acalypha_hispida

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PublishedApril 21, 2011

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