A few of these are commonly grown in Hawaii but Jatropha integerrima or rose jatropha is perhaps the most popular for landscape use. Most varieties have rosy pink flowers.

Call it the jatropha bubble. When word got out several years ago about the promise of a small subtropical tree called jatropha, it became a biofuel sensation. Advocates claimed the fruit tree was ...

Jatropha is a shrubby tree native to Central America that produces apricot-sized fruit that each contains a trio of grape-sized seeds that are about 30% oil.

Jatropha, a hardy, drought resistant plant that grows oil-heavy fruit, was supposed to be the salvation of the biodiesel industry. The plant, which was targeted for an $80 million pilot project by ...

Plant Jatropha in a full-sun site with well-drained soil. It is considered to be drought tolerant once established. Mexican Flame vine – Pseudogynoxys chenopodioides (previously Senecio confusus).

Jatropha Circas is the Cinderella of the plant world. Throw a seed in the poorest soil on the planet, and up comes a bush that will likely last 50 years. During a drought, jatropha bushes simply ...

BP has indeed given up on jatropha, the shrub once touted as the great hope for biofuels, and walked away from its jatropha joint venture for less than $1 million.

But now, another Third World project to cultivate Jatropha has crashed and burned. Jatropha, a fast-growing, drought-resistant tree native to Latin America, was introduced to Zimbabwe in the 1940s.

HIRIYUR, India -- Until recently, B.K. Nagendrappa didn't care much at all about jatropha, an ugly wild green shrub that thrives in India. Now, the coconut grower hopes to plant as many as 12 ...

The Jatropha curcas species may have great potential to mitigate climate change. Public Domain A hardy little plant that was once briefly heralded for its potential to alleviate climate change is ...

Even in South Florida, there are not many plants that bloom year-round. Some bloom on and off all year, but only a few have flowers 365 days a year. One of them is the Jatropha integerrima also kno… ...