Asclepias curassavica seed

LATIN NAME: Asclepias curassavica

COMMON NAME: Bloodflower

The bloodflower is the tropical one of the milkweed group, and the small, brilliant orange-red flowers cluster like the little torches. The upright, evergreen or semi-evergreen, perennial plant carries the narrow, pointed leaves and the small, brilliant orange-red flowers with the yellow centres in the dense, upright clusters through the long warm season, one of the fine, bright sights of the warm border. The plant is a fine, bold presence of the warm garden and the butterfly bed, and the milky sap asks for the careful hand. It is a plant of the open, sunny, well-drained ground.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The bloodflower is a bright subject of the plant science, and the orange-red clusters keep showing up in the work on the milkweed group. The chemistry of the milky sap, which carries the cardiac glycosides of the milkweeds, has been studied at length, and it keeps appearing in the studies of the monarch butterfly plants, the latex-bearing herbs and the members of the dogbane family. The narrow, pointed leaves and the upright, dense clusters have also made it a fine study plant, and the bloodflower is a regular subject of the work on the bright tropical milkweeds of the warm world.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

The bloodflower is a fine, bold plant of the warm border and the butterfly bed. The dense, upright clusters of the brilliant orange-red flowers open through the long warm season, drawing the monarchs and the other butterflies, and the plant is one of the fine host plants of the warm garden. The milky sap is best left to the careful hand, so the plant is grown for the flowers rather than the medicine chest, and it is one of the fine choices for the tropical border, the butterfly garden and the warm container. It has been written about in the horticultural and the ecological papers for the orange clusters and the butterfly ways, and it is a fine, generous plant of the open, sunny, well-drained garden.

The bloodflower is one of the host plants of the monarch butterfly, and the orange-red clusters burn through the warm season. The milky sap is best left to the careful hand.

To grow the bloodflower from seed, sow the small, silky seeds across the surface of a pot of moist, free-draining soil, keep the pot in a warm, bright spot and water gently. The seedlings are up within a couple of weeks and grow on fast. With the sun, the warmth and the well-drained ground, the orange clusters will burn through the warm season.

Seeds is medicine,Handsome ornamental with showy orange crimson flowers. Used to induce vomiting and to expel worms; and has digitalis-like action on the heart. Interestingly, birds find monarch butterflies feeding on this plant foul to the taste, and never eat another again!