Castor Bean
date: label: Collection Date
content: 2013
name: label: Collector
content: N. Erwin
label: Discipline
content: Botany
label: Region
content: US Mid Atlantic (PA, NJ, MD, DE, DC, VA, WV)
notes: label: Description
content: This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science education center and available to see.
label: Notes
content: This is a mounted specimen from a castor bean plant. There is a broken portion of the brown branch and a leaf (with stem) protruding from the branch. The leaf is green and has eight points, with these points evenly spread out across the full circumference of the leaf. The leaf is 23 cm x 26 cm, while the overall mount is approximately 41 cm x 28 cm. This specimen description was written remotely based on images as part of Amber Kreiensieck's internship in Fall 2021.
label: Number of objects in this record
content: 3
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Jun 2022
place: label: Collecting Locality
content: United States Botanic Garden backup greenhouse, North America, United States, District of Columbia
topic: label: Topic
content: Education & Outreach
setName: label: See more items in
content: Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center
publisher: label: Scientific Name
content: Ricinus communis
identifier: label: USNM Number
content: EO400891
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Education and Outreach collections
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Plantae, Equisetopsida, Magnoliidae, Rosanae, Malpighiales, Euphorbiaceae