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Jatropha curcas

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Jatropha curcas. See image source here.

#553 They called me Jatropha curcas, also known as Curcas adansonii. I pay homage to the male botanist Michel Adanson. They first catalogued me in 1753.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Chile North, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Windward Is..

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Pavonia hastata

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#550 They called me Pavonia hastata, also known as Pavonia jonesii. I pay homage to the male botanist Eustace Wilkinson Jones, George Neville Jones, or Marcus Eugene Jones. They first catalogued me in 1787.

Native to Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Mexico Southwest, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

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Galactia dubia

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Galactia dubia. See image source here.

#549 They called me Galactia dubia, also known as Galactia dubia var. ehrenbergii. I pay homage to the male botanist Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg. They first catalogued me in 1825.

Native to Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Galápagos, Haiti, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southwest, Northern Territory, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Turks-Caicos Is., and Windward Is..