Even in South Florida, there are not many plants that bloom year-round. Some bloom on and off all year, but only a few have flowers 365 days a year. One of them is the Jatropha integerrima also known ...

Blooms, birds and butterflies are the attributes everyone experiences when growing the award-winning spicy jatropha. Spicy jatropha also commonly known as peregrina and firecracker jatropha is really ...

Jatropha – Jatropha integerrima, commonly called peregrina, spicy jatropha, or fire-cracker plant. Native to Cuba, Jatropha is a tropical for us, but in its native range it is a large shrub. It has an ...

Although summer is often wet in Kona, you might want to start thinking about the dry times ahead while planting some flowering plants in your summer. Consider a few jatropha varieties that are ...

Blooms, birds and butterflies are the attributes everyone experiences when growing the award-winning spicy jatropha. Spicy jatropha, also commonly known as peregrina and firecracker jatropha, is ...

Small flowering trees make lovely additions to landscapes in Hawaii. Though we have many choices, a few have characteristics that recommend them for multiple uses by Kona gardeners. The rose jatropha ...

My neighbor has a tree that attracts wild parrots. I see them every day eating the leaves. Can you tell me the name of the tree so I can plant one? – Lyubov Burton, Wilton Manors The tree is the red ...

What is the tree that the tropical butterflies flock to? It’s the spicy jatropha (Jatropha integerrima). This small, vase-shaped, multi-stemmed tree has smooth, gray-tan bark with dark-green 3- to ...

Plenty of memorable things come in threes: The Three Musketeers, the Three Tenors and three-ring circuses. Also forming a compelling trio are the three most commonly cultivated Jatropha species which, ...