Croton Plant

Description

Croton is a beautiful multicolored plant with spreading branches bearing alternate petiolate leaves which are ovate, acuminate, serrate, smooth, dark green on upper surface paler beneath and furnished with two glands at base that grows throughout China and other parts of Asia.

Croton plant is evergreen tree from 6 to 10 meters high.

Now most of them are cultivated plant and in the wild it grows in valley, brook sides, wilderness, and woods sometimes.
Its root, bark, and leaves are also being used medicinally.

Croton seeds are sometimes applied directly to the skin for muscle and joint pain (rheumatism), gout, nerve pain (neuralgia), and bronchitis.

Note: the relationship between crotons and pets is complicated. The thing is that this eye-catching species is toxic and can harm if being digested.