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Tropical Milkweed

Asclepias curassavica

Description:

Photo take in my backyard this flowers belon to a wild plant no to tall about 70 cm tall at the tip it grows this small yellow and red flowers is not to common to see it.Typical plants are evergreen perennial subshrubs that grow up to 1 m (3.3 ft) tall and have pale gray stems. The leaves are arranged oppositely on the stems and are lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate shaped ending in acuminate or acute tips. Like other members of the genus, the sap is milky. The flowers are in cymes with 10-20 flowers each. They have purple or red corollas and corona lobes that are yellow or orange. Flowering occurs nearly year round. The 5–10 cm long, fusiform shaped fruits are called follicles. The follicles contain tan to brown seeds that are ovate in shape and 6–7 mm long. The flat seeds have silky hairs that allow the seeds to float on air currents when the pod-like follicles dehisce (split open).

Habitat:

It is native to the American tropics.It has a pantropical distribution as an introduced species. It is grown as an ornamental garden plant and as a source of food for butterflies.

1 Species ID Suggestions

gatorfellows
gatorfellows 11 years ago
Tropical Milkwed
Asclepias curassavica Asclepias curassavica


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2 Comments

Gerardo Aizpuru
Gerardo Aizpuru 11 years ago

Thanks gatorfellows great ID:)

gatorfellows
gatorfellows 11 years ago

woops! should be Milkweed - my bad typing

Gerardo Aizpuru
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Gerardo Aizpuru

Mexico

Spotted on Jun 16, 2012
Submitted on Jun 16, 2012

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