🌿 Botanical Name
Jatropha integerrima
👨‍👩‍👦 Family
Euphorbiaceae.
🗣️ Vernacular Names
Peregrina, Spicy Jatropha.
🌼 Flowering – Fruiting
April – July.
🌍 Distribution
Native of West Indies and Cuba.
💡 Status
Least Concern.

Description: Shrub. Leaves simple, glossy, highly variable, elliptic or oval or fiddle-shaped, entire or with three sharp pointed lobes. Flowers red, pink or vermilion, star-shaped, in many-flowered clusters. Fruit rounded-trigonous capsule.

Uses: Planted as an ornamental plant.