Description: The tender, shrubby castor bean is a half-hardy annual that often performs like a short-lived evergreen perennial in our region, growing from 3 to 15 feet tall and 3 feet wide with ...

A: Castor bean, or castor oil plant, is indeed a stately, striking and beautiful plant in the garden, with a bold texture and a tall, upright form unlike most other plants.

Castor Oil plants quickly attain the height of approximately 12 – 15 feet. Actually, the leaves are quite attractive; they are a glossy and palmate-shaped green.

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Ricin is a plant toxin, which is easily extracted from the beans of the castor oil plant. The fatal dose by injection, the most lethal way of administering it, is thought to be around one ...

Casterra's high oil-yielding varieties have been developed with traits which make the castor plants grown suitable for large scale farming on marginal soils in semi-arid conditions.

The castor oil plant is often used by gardeners in displays but it contains the substance ricin, which can prove fatal if ingested. A plant considered to be the world's most poisonous shrub has ...

The castor plant produces a seed with oil inside that has been used for medicinal purposes for centuries. Now, unique castor seed varieties developed by Israeli company Casterra will provide the basis ...