Jatropha

Jatropha is a genus in the family of the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae). Your points from the Greek words for doctor (iatros) and nutrition (trophies) derived botanical name on the medical use of seeds of some species and to the edible tubers of the previously submitted to this genre cassava (Manihot esculenta out).

Jatropha species are evergreen or deciduous trees, shrubs or perennial herbaceous plants, often with thick, tuberous roots. One third to one half of the approximately 175 species is native or wurzelsukkulent, a large proportion of other species is at least xerophytic. When the tribes often tree-like species are softwood and swollen at the base. Herbaceous species are geophytes with only short-lived, however often branches. In almost all types of branches and leaves are hairy, but the hair is never burning. They contain a milky sap, which is reddish in many species.

The alternate and spirally arranged or zweilig leaves are evergreen, lobed simple and ordinary. The leaf margins are smooth. The almost always present Stipules are usually shared, often with succulent species drüsenhaarig, sometimes thorny.

Jatropha species are mostly monoecious (monoecious), rarely dioecious (dioecious), unisexual plants. The terminal or axillary inflorescences are branched dichotomously and have a special arrangement of flowers: is terminally in the middle of an inflorescence a female flower (sometimes even a few female flowers), which is surrounded by the subject on the ramifications male flowers. All flowers are equipped with five Kron and sepals. The nectar glands at the base of the flower can stand freely or be merged into a ring-shaped disc. Male flowers, six to ten stamens in two circles. In the female flowers are usually two or three (or five) carpels fused to a oberständigen ovary usually with three free pencils, each with a bilobed stigma. Pollination is mostly by insects (entomophily).

It is developing three-lobed fruit capsules, which burst open when ripe and the seeds hurl several meters wide. The oily seeds are approximately oval and marked with an appendage called caruncle.

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