Common names:

• purging croton  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• croton cathartique  (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
• Krotonölbaum  (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
• Purgierkroton  (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
• crotone  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Portuguese
• cróton  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• croton  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• krotonoljeträd  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish

Economic Importance:

• Medicines: folklore (fide Kew Bull 26:250. 1971; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Non-vertebrate poisons: potential for weed control (for controlling Imperata grass)
• Vertebrate poisons: fish ()
• Vertebrate poisons: fish ()
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals (to humans or livestock)

Distributional Range:

Native

Asia-Temperate

• CHINA: China [Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang]
• EASTERN ASIA: Taiwan

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, [Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Orissa, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal] Nepal, Sri Lanka
• INDO-CHINA: Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
• MALESIA: Indonesia, [Celebes, Java, Kalimantan, Lesser Sunda Islands, Sumatra] Malaysia, Philippines


Cultivated (also cult.)

References:

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2. Airy Shaw, H. K. 1975. The Euphorbiaceae of Borneo Kew Bull. add. ser., 4:94.
3. Airy Shaw, H. K. 1981. The Euphorbiaceae of Sumatra Kew Bull. 36:285.
4. Airy Shaw, H. K. 1982. The Euphorbiaceae of Central Malesia (Celebes, Moluccas, Lesser Sunda Is.) Kew Bull. 37:15.
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Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2018. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=12426. Accessed 23 June 2018.