8 Fresh Seeds w/Instructions
Giant vegetation within a year! One minute you’re planting it, the next it is blazing in the garden, tall and full of drama. Castor bean is a very fast growing evergreen herbaceous or semi-woody large shrub or small tree that gets usually 6-12' tall, sometimes taller.
In the tropics, it can have a trunk that is woody near the base and up to a foot in diameter. Elsewhere, castor bean plant grows as an annual that can get 4-10' tall in a single growing season. This is a fast growing, colony forming plant with decidedly tropical looking foliage. They tend to grow straight up at first, developing branches only later in the season (and in subsequent years for plants that live that long).
The huge leaves are palmate, with 5-11 deeply incised lobes. They are glossy green to purplish or reddish-green and 12-30" across, with long petioles (leaf stems). The flowers are followed by green to reddish brown egg-shaped capsules, about an inch long, thickly covered with soft flexible spines. Annual. Grows quick like a regular bean.
A noble foliage plant, often used to give a tropical appearance to the border or ....to repel moles.
► Note: Seeds of this plants are poison. Break off the seed pods as needed.
Other: Annual tropical foliage, fastest growing plant, fast growing plant, tropical foliage cold climate
