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과명	Euphorbiaceae (대극과)	속명	Codiaeum (코디애움속)
전체학명	Codiaeum variegatum (L.) Rumph. ex A.Juss.	추천명	크로톤
이명		외국명	Croton Garden

Codiaeum variegatum (garden croton or variegated croton; syn. Croton variegatum L.) is a species of plant in the genus Codiaeum, which is a member of the family Euphorbiaceae. It is native to Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia, and the western Pacific Ocean islands, growing in open forests and scrub.

The garden crotons should not be confused with Croton, a cosmopolitan genus also in the Euphorbiaceae, containing more than 700 species of herbs, shrubs and trees.

It is a tropical, evergreen, monoecious shrub growing to 3 m (9.8 ft) tall and has large, thick, leathery, shiny evergreen leaves, alternately arranged, 5–30 cm (2.0–11.8 in) long and 0.5–8 cm (0.20–3.15 in) broad. The inflorescences are long racemes 8–30 cm (3.1–11.8 in) long, with male and female flowers on separate inflorescences; the male flowers are white with five small petals and 20–30 stamens, the female flowers yellowish, with no petals. The fruit is a capsule 9 mm (0.35 in) diameter, containing three 6 mm (0.24 in) seeds. The stems contain milky sap that bleeds from cut stems.

The changeable leaves are divided into petiole and leaf blade. The petiole has a length of 0.2 to 2.5 cm. The thin leathery, bald leaf blade is shaped and coloured differently depending on the variety. With a length of 5 to 30 cm and a width of 0.3 to 0.5 to 8 cm, the leaf blade can be easy to split, it can, for example, ruler-lanceolate, oblong, elliptic, lanceolate, ovate inverted ovate spatulate, violin-shaped or beeched with wedge-shaped to obtuse spur base and pointed to rounded. The leaf colors range from green to yellow to purple and quite different patterns are possible. They form lateral, slender, simple, racemose inflorescences that have a length of 8 to 30 cm and contain many flowers. The discus has five glands. They contain many (20 to 30) stamens. The flowering period is usually in early autumn. The seeds have a diameter of about 6 mm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codiaeum_variegatum