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Apple of Sodom

Calotropis procera

Habitat:

native to native to North Africa, Tropical Africa, Western Asia, South Asia, and Indochina. Found on tropical Caribbean beach.

Notes:

Took me a while of searching on the web to finally find the ID for this plant. (thanks to a comment on a Fliker photo) It seems this north African desert milkweed, is found in many tropical Caribbean island beaches.

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1 Comment

suzmonk
suzmonk 10 years ago

Yay! Glad your hard work paid off with an ID ... great feeling, isn't it?

LivanEscudero
Spotted by
LivanEscudero

British Virgin Islands

Spotted on Jun 20, 2013
Submitted on Jan 2, 2014

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