- Scientific name
- Jatropha curcas
- Common name
- Barbados Nut
- Kingdom / family
- Euphorbiaceae
- Genus
- Jatropha
- Category
- plantae
- Primary role
- weed
- Native regions
- ["Caño Cuduyarí, departamento de Vaupés (Amazonia Colombiana)","Argentina Northeast","Argentina Northwest","Belize","Bolivia","Brazil Northeast","Brazil North","Brazil Southeast","Brazil South","Brazil West-Central","Chile North","Colombia","Costa Rica","Cuba","Dominican Republic","Ecuador","El Salvador","Guatemala","Guyana","Haiti","Honduras","Jamaica","Leeward Is.","Mexico Central","Mexico Gulf","Mexico Northeast","Mexico Southeast","Mexico Southwest","Nicaragua","Panamá","Paraguay","Peru","Puerto Rico","Trinidad-Tobago"]
- Invasive regions
- ["Galápagos Islands","Guadeloupe","Martinique","Andaman Is.","Angola","Assam","Bahamas","Bangladesh","Benin","Borneo","Burkina","Burundi","Cambodia","Cape Verde","Caroline Is.","Cayman Is.","Central African Republic","Chad","China South-Central","China Southeast","Comoros","DR Congo","East Himalaya","Ethiopia","Fiji","Florida","Gabon","Galápagos","Gambia","Guinea-Bissau","Guinea","Gulf of Guinea Is.","Hainan","Hawaii","India","Ivory Coast","Jawa","Laos","Lesser Sunda Is.","Malaya","Maluku","Marianas","Mozambique","New Caledonia","New Guinea","Nicobar Is.","Philippines","Queensland","Samoa","Saudi Arabia","Senegal","Seychelles","South China Sea","Southwest Caribbean","Sri Lanka","Sudan-South Sudan","Sulawesi","Sumatera","Suriname","Taiwan","Thailand","Togo","Tonga","Tuvalu","Uganda"]