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Silver Croton

Croton insularis

Silver Croton
Photo: Poyt448, Peter Woodard, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Euphorbiaceae (Spurge family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
E. Queensland to NE. New South Wales, Vanuatu, New Caledonia (incl. Îs. Loyauté)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Croton insularis, the silver croton, is a small tree in the spurge family. Growing in dry rainforest and rainforest margins in eastern Australia, north from the Blue Mountains. It is also found in New Caledonia and Vanuatu. Other common names include white croton, cascarilla, native cascarilla and Queensland cascarilla.

Other Croton plants

Croton adenophorus · Texabama Croton · Alabama croton · Healing croton · Croton aromaticus · Croton barahonensis · California croton · Hogwort · Croton chilensis · Chittagong Croton · Mexican croton · Cortez's croton

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Croton insularis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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