Tropic Croton

(Croton glandulosus)

Characteristics

Seedling	Leaves	Flowers	Fruit

Growing habits: Erect summer annual herb

Root anatomy: Fibrous roots from shallow taproot

Leaf anatomy: Alternate, simple, oblong to egg-shaped, margins sharply serrate; trichomes glandular, whitish, cartilaginous, saucer-shaped, on each side

Reproduction: monoecious, terminal racemes, female flowers basically petalless, male flowers 4-5 petals

^{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}