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  • COMMON NAME: Dyer's croton
  • ARABIC: تنوم
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Chrozophora tinctoria (L.) Raf
  • SYNONYMS: Croton tinctorius L., Ricinoides tinctoria (L.) Moench, Tournesol tinctoria (L.) Baill.
  • FAMILY: EUPHORBIACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Sharjah , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Slope (Rocky) Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://www.floraofqatar.com/chrozophora_tinctoria.htm https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:340969-1#synonyms
Annual, stellate-woolly, with minute hairs, greyish not felty, 20-40 cm high. Stems branched, mostly forked. Leaves rhombic-ovate, 2-6 cm long, obtuse, subcordate, or short-cuneate at base, broader than long, with entire or gently undulate margins; petioles 1-6 cm long, glandless. Inflorescence racemose; flowers 2-4 mm long. Stamens 10, with filaments variously united into a column. Capsule globose, 7 mm in diameter, 3-lobed, silvery-scurfy. Flowering from March to July.
Rocky slopes and sandy soil.
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