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Excoecaria cochinchinensis
From Old World Tropics. Small shrub with (in the commonly cultivated variegated forms) having the nearly opposite leaves dark red-purple on the underside, with the top sides variably variegated.
Planted as an ornamental In a small garden in the middle of a residential section in middle of the sprawling metropolis of Jakarta, Indonesia.
Generic name comes from Latin "to make blind". The sap in the eye reportedly causes (temporary?) blindness.
Spotted on Mar 6, 2012
Submitted on Mar 21, 2012
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