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Ricinus communis 'Carmencita' (castor oil plant), form
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Ricinus communis 'Carmencita' (castor oil plant), form

3.106645
35mm color slide
Digitized
Photographic image
August 1995
Ricinus communis 'Carmencita', form. Ricinus communis 'Carmencita' (castor bean or castor oil plant) has large, shiny, bronze-red, palmate, deeply lobed leaves with prominent red veins and red stems.  A red flower spike has clusters of small cream or yellow male flowers below the terminal bright red, pin cushion, feathery, female flowers. 
Ricinus L.
Ricinus communis 'Carmencita' (castor oil plant)
Annuals (Plants)
Euphorbiaceae (spurge family)
Plant Habit
Summer
Sharon Yiesla Photograph Collection
Plants
Ricinus
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL
Copyright statement: ©Sharon Yiesla

Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image are available from the Sterling Morton Library, The Morton Arboretum. For more information, please visit our ABOUT section or complete and submit this form.