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 ...

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FORT MYERS, Fla. — What some see as the biofuel of the future starts out as short, thick stems with a few leaves sticking out at sharp angles. But in just a few years, they will be tall, leafy trees ...

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Kenya has embraced a hardy bush called jatropha curcas as the heart of a nascent biofuel industry. Proponents predict a future in which jatropha oil will power commercial jets and cars. But in Kenya, ...

Everyone in Kibwezi, a village in southeastern Kenya parched by four years of drought, remembers the promises. It all started in 2000, when the government started preaching the word about a plant ...

FRANKFURT, Jan 9 (Reuters) - German carmaker Daimler AG has teamed up with Archer Daniels Midland and Bayer CropScience to explore tropical plant Jatropha as a biodiesel fuel, Daimler said. "Biodiesel ...

“This plant will save humanity, I tell you,” Singh proclaims, as he points to 1.2-meter-tall jatropha shrubs nearby. Someday, “every house will have jatropha!” As oil prices hover around $80 a barrel, ...

MIDRAND, South Africa (Reuters) - Jatropha, often hailed as rich source of biodiesel that flourishes in semi-arid areas of Africa, is hard to grow and often fails if farmers lack expertise, an ...

One of the major sources of pollution are the outputs from the burning of fossil fuels. Coupled with the climate crisis, the war in Ukraine, the shortage of fossil fuel and high prices of crude oil, ...

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." That famous line from Shakespeare’s "Romeo and Juliet" is undoubtedly true. But if roses were called "stinkweeds," some folks would undoubtedly steer ...