Ricinus communis

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Common name   Castor-Oil Plant
Hebrew name   קיקיון מצוי
أللّغة آلعربيّة   خروع
Family Euphorbiaceae
Leaf form Lobed
Leaf margin Dentate
צורת הגבעול Round
Life form Tree
Distribution in Israel Gallilee, Upper Jordan valley, Northern valleys, Samarian mountains, Judean mountains, Judean desert and Dead Sea valley, Sharon, Shefela, Northern Negev, Aravah, Jordan Valley,
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Toxic Medicinal invasive allergenic

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Castor-Oil Plant
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“The LORD God appointed a bush, and made it come up over Jonah, to give shade over his head... so Jonah was very happy... But when dawn came up the next day...” (Jonah 4: 6-7 )

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And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made [it] to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.

4:7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

4:9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? (the bush)  And he said, I do well to be angry, [even] unto death.

4:10 Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:

4:11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and [also] much cattle?

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