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Botanical details
- Family
- Euphorbiaceae
- Native to the UK
- No
- Potentially harmful
- Genus
Acalypha
- Genus description
Acalypha can be evergreen shrubs or trees, or annuals, with simple leaves and catkin-like racemes of tiny flowers, brightly coloured in some species
- Name status
Accepted
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