| Codiaeum variegatum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Euphorbiaceae |
| Genus: | Codiaeum |
| Species: | C. variegatum
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| Binomial name | |
| Codiaeum variegatum | |
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Codiaeum variegatum (fire croton, garden croton, or variegated croton, or simply 'croton'; syn. Croton variegatum L.) is a species of Codiaeum, a genus of flowering plants, in the Euphorbiaceae (the spurge family). Initially described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753, it is native to Australasia and Oceania, from Malaysia and Indonesia in the north through northeastern Australia, as well as many Southeast Asian and South Pacific islands, growing in open forests and scrub.[2][3][4]
The Codiaeums' commonly-used name of "croton" should not be confused with Croton, a separate genus—also within the spurge family—which contains more than 700 species of cosmopolitan herbs, shrubs and trees.
- ^ G. Nicholson Ill. Dict. Gard. 1: 352 1885
- ^ Flora of China: Codiaeum variegatum
- ^ Huxley, A., ed. (1992). New RHS Dictionary of Gardening 1: 665. Macmillan.
- ^ "Codiaeum variegatum var. Moluccanum | Atlas of Living Australia". Archived from the original on 2015-10-02. Retrieved 2015-06-15.