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Tropical milkweed
Asclepias curassavica
About
Asclepias curassavica, commonly known as tropical milkweed, is a flowering plant species of the milkweed genus, Asclepias. It is native to the American tropics and has a pantropical distribution as an introduced species. Other common names include bloodflower or blood flower, cotton bush, hierba de la cucaracha, Mexican butterfly weed, redhead, scarlet milkweed, and wild ipecacuanha.
- Family
- Apocynaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Asclepias curassavica
- Slug
- asclepias-curassavica
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Apocynaceae
- Genus
- Asclepias
- Species
- curassavica
- Wikidata QID
- Q939991
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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