Description

botanical name ( Jatropha Multifida ) Coral plant is a shrub or small tree with a single trunk, a loose, spreading crown . The very distinctive leaves are large. They are cut deeply into 7-11 narrow lobes with the margins of each lobe themselves dissected into narrow pointed segments. They are dark green above and whitish beneath. The flowers are bright coral red and borne in flat-topped clusters on long stalks held high above the foliage.