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Chinese croton, blindness tree, buta buta, picara
Excoecaria cochinchinensis
-6.25954, 106.818
Field Notes
Description:
From Old World Tropics. Small shrub with (in the commonly cultivated variegated forms) having the nearly opposite leaves dark red-purple on the underside, with the top sides variably variegated.
Habitat:
Planted as an ornamental In a small garden in the middle of a residential section in middle of the sprawling metropolis of Jakarta, Indonesia.
Notes:
Generic name comes from Latin "to make blind". The sap in the eye reportedly causes (temporary?) blindness.
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PublishedMarch 21, 2012
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