Jatropha red - Flowering Shrubs

Description

Jatropha is a genus of flowering plants in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae. A shrub with small flowers surrounded by bright red bracts. Evergreen shrubs, with lactescence. Leaves simple, alternative, oblanceolate, often fascicled on the terminal of stems. Its Cherry-Blossom-like flowers are very small, but the flowering period is very long and almost in all the year.