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Ricinus
castor-oil plant
- Height 5 ft (150 cm)
- Planting distance 3 ft (90 cm)
- Foliage plant
- Rich soil
- Sunny site
- Tender shrub grown as tender annual
This tropical plant, whose seeds are used to make castor oil, is a very
striking tender annual. Robust and shrubby, it will grow 5 ft (150 cm)
high and nearly as wide in course of a year, making it useful as an
eye-catching specimen plant. The leaves, up to 1 ft (30 cm) wide, are
hand-shaped. In the species Ricinus communis these are green, but
cultivars exist with brown, maroon, and bronze-green foliage.
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