Castor oil plant

I'm sure many of you are pretty familiar with castor oil. Read the following article to know more about its source, the castor bean plant, and uncover various interesting facts about it.

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Ricinus communis Castor oil plant - evergreen shrub growing to about 30 ft (10 m) in its natural state, but a much smaller annual when cultivated. Castor oil plant has large, palm-shaped leaves, green female flowers, and prickly red seed capsules. When archeologists first went into 4,000-year-old Egyptian tombs, their eyes were drawn to sparkling…

Castor Bean plants (Ricinus Communis) a robust shrub, widely cultivated around the world in warm areas, primarily for producing castor oil. [DETAILS]

This plant is a species of perennial flowering plant in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae. Its seed is the castor bean, which, despite its name, is not a true bean. Castor is indigenous to the southeastern Mediterranean Basin, Eastern Africa, and India, but is widespread throughout tropical regions (and widely grown elsewhere as an ornamental plant). Castor seed is the source of castor oil, which has a variety of uses. The seed also contains ricin, a water-soluble toxin, which is also present…

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