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Article: Pruning foliage on a false castor oil plant.
- Article from:
- Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
- Article date:
- May 23, 2009
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Byline: Graham Porter
CAN YOU remember as a child being forced to drink that foul liquid for some reason unknown to you? I can, and until I started my horticultural training in 1966 I did not know where it came from.
It is, of course oil extracted from the large seeds of the castor oil plant, Ricinus communis. I helped to grow a purple leaved ornamental version of it in my parks department days when it was used as a large dot plant amongst a sea of low growing, flowering summer annuals.
You might ask what this ...