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Castor Bean - Gibsonii

Castor Bean Gibsonii (Ricinus Communis Gibsonii) - The castor oil plant - Ricinus communis is a very useful tropical foliage plant. It is grown from seed annually, easily reaching 5 foot plus in one season. Tall and dramatic, this variety produces huge dark red leaves and stunning scarlet seed heads. For a tropical touch to your garden this majestic plant adds beautiful and interesting foliage and a colorful backdrop to other foliage and flowering plants.

Castor Bean - Impala

Castor Bean Impala (Ricinus Communis Impala) - The castor oil plant - Ricinus communis is a very useful tropical foliage plant. It is grown from seed annually, easily reaching 5 foot plus in one season. Tall and dramatic, this variety produces huge copper-red leaves. This evergreen tropical shrub can grow so fast that it can be used as a very large and dramatic annual in the garden.

Castor Bean - Zanzibariensis

Castor Bean Zanzibariensis (Ricinus Communis Zanzibariensis) - A truly spectacular tropical perennial, this castor bean oil plant achieves massive sizes in a single growing season before (unfortunately) being killed by frost. This variety of castor bean plant has huge star-like bronzey-green finely-serrated leaves up to two feet across and large seed stalks of droopy-spiked dark green seed balls up to 18 inches long, drying to brown.