- Scientific name
- Ricinus communis
- Common name
- Castor Bean
- Kingdom / family
- Euphorbiaceae
- Genus
- Ricinus
- Category
- plantae
- Primary role
- crop
- Crop type
- vegetable
- Growth habit
- annual/perennial shrub
- Temperature
- 20 to 30 °C
- pH
- 5 to 6.5
- Precipitation
- 600 to 1000 mm
- Soil texture
- 6
- Light
- 3/10
- Native regions
- ["Eritrea","Ethiopia"]
- Invasive regions
- ["Amazonia colombiana: sur del departamento del Vichada; el suroriente del Meta; todo el territorio de los departamentos de Amazonas, Caquetá, Guainía, Guaviare, Putumayo y Vaupés; la Bota Caucana; y las vertientes amazónicas de Nariño (la parte alta de los ríos Guamuez, Sucio, San Miguel y Aguarico)","Galápagos Islands","Reunion","Guadeloupe","Martinique","Alabama","Albania","Algeria","Andaman Is.","Angola","Argentina Northeast","Argentina Northwest","Arizona","Arkansas","Aruba","Ascension","Assam","Azores","Bahamas","Bangladesh","Belize","Benin","Bermuda","Bismarck Archipelago","Botswana","Brazil West-Central","Bulgaria","Burkina","Burundi","California","Cambodia","Canary Is.","Cape Provinces","Caprivi Strip","Caroline Is.","Cayman Is.","Central African Republic","Central American Pacific Is.","Central European Russia","Chad","Chagos Archipelago","Chile Central","Chile North","China North-Central","China South-Central","China Southeast","Christmas I.","Cocos (Keeling) Is.","Colombia","Comoros","Cook Is.","Costa Rica","Cuba","DR Congo","Djibouti","Dominican Republic","East Aegean Is.","East Himalaya","Easter Is.","Egypt","El Salvador","Eswatini","Fiji","Florida","France","Gabon","Galápagos","Gambia","Georgia","Germany","Gilbert Is.","Great Britain","Greece","Guinea-Bissau","Guinea","Gulf States","Gulf of Guinea Is.","Hainan","Haiti","Hawaii","Honduras","Illinois","India","Iran","Italy","Jamaica","Juan Fernández Is.","Kazan-retto","Kentucky"]