Taxon: Asclepias curassavica L.

Common names:

• bastard ipecacuana   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• bastard-ipecac   (Source: Pl Book ) – English
  
• bloodflower   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  
• bloodflower milkweed   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• cottonbush   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• false ipecac   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• Madagascar cottonbush   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• milky cottonbush   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• red milkweed   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 12(2):89) – English
  
• red-cotton   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• redhead   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• redhead cottonbush   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• scarlet milkweed   (Source: F Florida ) – English
  
• swallowwort   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 12(2):89) – English
  
• wallflower cottonbush   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• West Indian ipecacuana   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• wild ipecac   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• wild oleander   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• ma li jin   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• asclepias de Curaçao   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 12(2):89) – French
  
• herbe à sang   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – French
  
• ipéca sauvage   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – French
  
• Indianer-Seidenpflanze   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• algodãozinho-do-campo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• camará-bravo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• capitão-de-sala   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• cega-olho   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• erva-de-paina   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• oficial-de-sala   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• paina-de-sapo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• paininha   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• algodoncillo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• corcalito   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• flor de sangre   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• yuquillo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• röd sidenört   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Harmful organism host: crop diseases   (fide WorldWeeds 85. 1997)
  
• Harmful organism host: crop pests   (fide WorldWeeds 85. 1997)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Mansf Ency)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Econ Pl Aust)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed; Econ Pl Aust)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Asclepias curassavica from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Sur, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatan
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Bermuda; Cayman Islands; Cuba; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Guadeloupe; Haiti; Jamaica; Martinique; Montserrat; Netherlands Antilles - Saba; Puerto Rico; St. Vincent and Grenadines; Virgin Islands (British); Virgin Islands (U.S.)
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile [n.]; Paraguay

• AFRICA
  Africa
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Pakistan
  North Indian Ocean: Cocos (Keeling) Islands
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Thailand
  Malesia: Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida, Louisiana
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  Northwestern Pacific: Marshall Islands; Micronesia; Northern Mariana Islands; Palau
  South-Central Pacific: Cook Islands; French Polynesia
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; New Caledonia; Samoa; Tonga; Vanuatu; Wallis and Futuna Islands
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Ecuador - Galapagos Islands

• also cultivated

• exact native range in Americas obscure

References:

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• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica.
• Albers, F. 1996. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
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• Burkart, A. E., ed. 1969–. Flora ilustrada de Entre Rios.
• Cabrera, A. L., dir. 1977–. Flora de la provincia de Jujuy, Republica Argentina.
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• Fontella P., J. 1996. pers. comm. [re. common names].
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Synonyms:

• (≡) Asclepias nivea var. curassavica (L.) Kuntze
  

Check other web resources for Asclepias curassavica L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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