All flowers have multiple names.

Each culture that encounters the flower will give it a name.

Flowers often have different species. It is not uncommon for plants to develop different species in different climate zones. So, aach species will need a different name in each language.

Explorers travel the world to collect plants. Sadly, they often make mistakes with the names.

The scientific community has done a fairly good job cataloging cataloging flowers.

When I take pictures of flowers, I like to state the location of the plant and report both the local name and what I believe to be the scientific name.

I looked up Jatropha integerrima. Wikipedia says that the Jatropha integerrima is a spurge native to Cuba. Wikipedia lists many species in the Jatropha genus

!PIZZA

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