The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Ricinocarpos crispatus is a small shrub in the spurge family, endemic to south-western Queensland, where it grows in dry shrubland on low tablelands. It is rarely grown in gardens, so care advice rests mainly on its arid native habitat.
Ricinocarpos crispatus is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae and is endemic to south-western Queensland. It is a monoecious or dioecious shrub with linear leaves and white flowers, arranged either singly, with two to four male flowers, or a single female flower surrounded by one or two male flowers.
This species grows in shrubland on the slopes and crests of low tablelands, approximately in the area between Blackall, Quilpie and Charleville in south-western Queensland.
Ricinocarpos bowmanii · Ricinocarpos brevis · Ricinocarpos caniana · Ricinocarpos cyanescens · Ricinocarpos glaucus · Ricinocarpos gloria-medii · Ricinocarpos graniticus · Ricinocarpos ledifolius · Ricinocarpos linearifolius · Ricinocarpos marginatus · Ricinocarpos megalocarpus · Ricinocarpos muricatus
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ricinocarpos crispatus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
