Croton tiglium

A small tree or shrub with a few spreading branches bearing alternate petiolate leaves which are ovate, acuminate, serrate, smooth, dark green on upper surface paler beneath and furnished with two glands at base. Flowers in erect terminal racemes, scarcely as long as the leaf, the lower female, upper male, straw-colored petals. The oil is obtained by expression from the seeds previously deprived of the shell.

Similar plants:

• Aleurites moluccana, Aleurites triloba, Croton moluccanus (Candlenut oil tree, Candleberry, Varnish tree, Indian or Belgaum Walnut, Kemiri, Kukui nut tree)
• Croton ciliatoglandulifer (Bush Croton, Mexican Croton)
• Croton draco, Croton panamensis, Croton draco ssp. panamensis (Dragon's Blood)
• Croton eluteria, Cascarilla officinalis (Cascarilla)
• Croton lachnocarpus (Hairyfruit Croton)
• Croton sylvaticus (Forest Fever Berry, Woodland Croton)