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Asclepias curassavica - Flower - Click to enlarge!

Flower; Santo Antônio do Pinhal, Campos do Jordão, São Paulo, Brazil; 7/2011 © Jörn Germer

Asclepias curassavica - Flower, side view - Click to enlarge!

Flower, side view; Santo Antônio do Pinhal, Campos do Jordão, São Paulo, Brazil; 7/2011 © Jörn Germer

Asclepias curassavica - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Santo Antônio do Pinhal, Campos do Jordão, São Paulo, Brazil; 7/2011 © Jörn Germer

Asclepias curassavica - Inflorescence, side view - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence, side view; Santo Antônio do Pinhal, Campos do Jordão, São Paulo, Brazil; 7/2011 © Jörn Germer

Asclepias curassavica - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Santo Antônio do Pinhal, Campos do Jordão, São Paulo, Brazil; 7/2011 © Jörn Germer

Asclepias curassavica - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Santo Antônio do Pinhal, Campos do Jordão, São Paulo, Brazil; 7/2011 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 1868
Date of entry: 20.02.2012
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Mexican butterfly weed

German: Indianer-Seidenpflanze

Portuguese: Oficial-de-sala

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2728)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2642)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2226)

      Order: Gentianales (114)

        Family: Apocynaceae (37)(family description)

          Genus: Asclepias (2)

            Epithet: curassavica L. (2)

Synonyms: Asclepias cubensis Wender., Asclepias cubensis Wender.

cubensis => from Cuba

curassavica => from or of Curaçao, Leeward Antilles, Caribbean

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habit: herb

Flower colour: red, orange, yellow

External links

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