Jatropha multifida belongs to the family Euphorbiaceae. It is a shrub growing up to 20ft. high with stout glabrous branches. The leaves are segmented or lobed numbering about 12. It has coral-red ...

Jatropha, a hardy, drought resistant plant that grows oil-heavy fruit, was supposed to be the salvation of the biodiesel industry. The plant, which was targeted for an $80 million pilot project by BP ...

Blooms, birds and butterflies are the attributes everyone experiences when growing the award-winning spicy jatropha. Spicy jatropha, also commonly known as peregrina and firecracker jatropha, is ...

The Jatropha curcas species may have great potential to mitigate climate change. Public Domain A hardy little plant that was once briefly heralded for its potential to alleviate climate change is ...

A small inedible seed from a Mexican tree is seen by some as the answer to the world’s fuel crisis. But the seed from the jatropha tree, used to make biofuels, is still hugely controversial in South ...

BP has indeed given up on jatropha, the shrub once touted as the great hope for biofuels, and walked away from its jatropha joint venture for less than $1 million. Speculation abounded this summer ...