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Jatropha curcas or Barbados nut or Physic nut is a poisonous shrub belonging to the Euphorbiaceae or spurge family. The plant, originating in Central America, is mainly grown in Asia and in Africa, where it is known as Pourghère. It is resistant to a high degree of aridity and as such does not compete with food crops. Moreover, its cultivation is uncomplicated. Seed extraction is made simple with the use of the Universal Nut Sheller an appropriate technology designed by *- The Full Belly Project. Jatropha Curcas thrives on a mere 250 mm of rain a year and only during its first two years does it need to be watered in the closing days of the dry season. Ploughing and planting are not needed regularly as this shrub has a life expectancy of approximately forty years. The use of pesticides and other polluting substances is no longer called for, thanks to the pesticidal and fungicidal properties of the plant. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 471 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (500 × 636 pixel, file size: 56 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Description: Jatropha curcas Top of a Jatropha plant as part of a hedge near Falan, Mali Source: www. ...
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Divisions Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adders-tongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants The embryophytes are the most familiar...
The spermatophytes comprise those plants that produce seeds. ...
Families Family Achariaceae Family Balanopaceae Family Bonnetiaceae Family Caryocaraceae Family Chrysobalanaceae Family Clusiaceae Family Ctenolophonaceae Family Dichapetalaceae Family Elatinaceae Family Erythryloxaceae (coca family) Family Euphorbiaceae (spurge family) Family Euphroniaceae Family Goupiaceae Family Humiriaceae Family Hypericaceae (St Johns wort family) Family Irvingiaceae Family Ixonanthaceae Family Lacistemaceae Family Linaceae (flax family...
Genera See text Ref: Euphorbiaceae in The Families of Flowering Plants, as of 2002-07-13 The Spurge family (Euphorbiaceae) is a large family of flowering plants with 280 genera and around 6000 species. ...
Species Approximately 175, see Section Species. ...
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Carl Linnaeus, Latinized as Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as , (May 23, 1707[1] – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist[2] who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of nomenclature. ...
Genera See text Ref: Euphorbiaceae in The Families of Flowering Plants, as of 2002-07-13 The Spurge family (Euphorbiaceae) is a large family of flowering plants with 280 genera and around 6000 species. ...
For other uses, see Central America (disambiguation). ...
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A world map showing the continent of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. ...
The Malian peanut sheller in Uganda, 2005 The Malian Peanut/Groundnut Sheller is a simple hand-operated machine capable of shelling 50 kg of raw, sun-dried nuts per hour. ...
The oily seeds are processed into oil, which may be directly used to fuel combustion engines or may be subjected to transesterification to produce biodiesel. Jatropha oil is not suitable for human consumption. A colourant can also be derived from the seed. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 685 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (800 × 700 pixel, file size: 286 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Description: Jatropha curcas seed Source: self-made Date: created 07. ...
Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 685 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (800 × 700 pixel, file size: 286 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Description: Jatropha curcas seed Source: self-made Date: created 07. ...
Plant oils are oils derived from plant sources, as opposed to animal fats or petroleum. ...
In organic chemistry, transesterification is the process of exchanging the alkoxy group of an ester compound by another alcohol. ...
This article is about transesterified plant and animal oils. ...
Jatropha oil is produced from the seeds of the Jatropha curcas, a plant that can grow in wastelands. ...
A colourant is something added to something else to induce a change in colour. ...
In the early 1990s, a growth trial in Nicaragua covering 2,000 hectares did not live up to expectations, yielding only a disappointing 200 litres of Jatropha oil per hectare.[citation needed] However, Jatropha is well able to yield as much as 1,900 litres of diester per hectare, largely exceeding the capacity of rapeseed.[citation needed] A carboxylic acid ester. ...
Binomial name Brassica napus L. Rapeseed (Brassica napus), also known as Rape, Oilseed Rape, Rapa, Rapaseed and (one particular cultivar) Canola, is a bright yellow flowering member (related to mustard) of the family Brassicaceae. ...
If just 3 per cent of Africa was planted with this crop, the revenue would easily run into tens of billions of euros. [citation needed] India is now preparing for the planting of 40 million hectares with Jatropha, and has done intensive testing of this biofuel.[1] Three Mercedeses powered by Jatropha diesel have already put some 30,000 kilometres behind them. The project is supported by DaimlerChrysler and by the German Association for Investment and Development (Deutschen Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft, DEG). Jatropha oil is produced from the seeds of the Jatropha curcas, a plant that can grow in wastelands. ...
DaimlerChrysler AG (ISIN: DE0007100000) is a German car corporation and the worlds eighth largest car manufacturer. ...
See also An energy crop is a plant domesticated for use in agriculture and is produced as a low cost and low maintenance harvest (generally, non food crops) to be used to make biofuels or directly exploited for its energy content. ...
The term non food crop applies to the use of agricultural crop for uses other than human (as food) or animal consumption (as feed). ...
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