Croton sylvaticus

Croton sylvaticus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Malpighiales
Family:	Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily:	Crotonoideae
Tribe:	Crotoneae
Genus:	Croton
Species:	C. sylvaticus
Binomial name
Croton sylvaticus Muell. Arg.

Croton sylvaticus is a tree in the Euphorbiaceae family. It is commonly known as the forest fever-berry. These trees are distributed in forests from the east coast of South Africa to Tropical Africa. It grows 7-13 m in height, occasionally up to 30 m, in moist forests, thickets and forest edges at altitudes of 350-1800 m.

Greenish cream flowers, up to 3 mm long (all male or female or mixed flowers), in racemes, 10–30 cm long. Fruit, light green when young, turning to orange or red, trilobed, oval in shape, hairy.

Used as a general timber, for poles, posts and as a fuel.

Sap from leaves is used for healing cuts, bark is used in the treatment of malaria, a decoction from the bark of the roots is taken orally as a remedy for tuberculosis, an infusion of the leaves acts as a purgative.

Crown.

Young stem.

Leaves.

Flower buds on inflorescence.

Flower.

Fruit.

Seeds.

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