Talk:Croton (plant)

Not sure why Argyrodendron is included here. It's a sterculia, not a croton. It's never been a croton, as far as I know. Peter1968 10:07, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Maybe a mention of Phorbol esters, and their cancer inducing potential.

Contradiction

The number of species is given different estimates in different places in this article. The lead gives "625", without a reference; the taxobox gives "About 1,200", without a reference, and the linked List of Croton species lists about 530. Someone needs to find an up-to-date reference and make them all agree. --Stemonitis (talk) 14:47, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

I assume some/many of the genera listed in Synonyms are segregate genera. Definitely agree that we should be citing more sources (about species counts in particular, and about various other things in the article), especially because different sources will differ on taxonomy. Kingdon (talk) 00:50, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

I had a quick look and found no conclusive scientific agreement, with numbers like 1300, 1223 & 1223 - 350 in Brazil alone or 750. I'm not personally concerned about the list, as it is unlikely to be a complete list - new species are regularly discovered. I'm going to take out the other two though for the time being as having numbers that different only serve to harm the encyclopedia. --Worm 14:17, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Biofuel

"It has recently been shown in Kenya that Croton nuts, such as those from C. megalocarpus,[4] are a more economical source of biofuel than Jatropha. In Kenya, Jatropha requires as much as 20,000 litres of water to make a litre of biofuel, while Croton trees grow wild and yield about .35 litres of oil per kilo of nuts."

I am curious about the claim that you need 20 000 litres of water to make one litre of jatopha fuel. It sounds extremely unlikely taken in to consideration that jatropha is a plant that grows on semiarid land. What is the source of this data? The sentence also makes little sense since we are never told how much water croton needs. If that section where to make sense it needs to tell us what makes croton more economic that jatropha. To do that it must compare data that are compareble, not water consumtion for one plant and oil yields for another. If there are neo protest I suggest that the section is change to:

"It has recently been shown in Kenya that Croton nuts, such as those from C. megalocarpus,[4] can be a economic source of biofuels. The plant can yield about .35 litres of oil per kilo of nuts." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jfhojem (talk • contribs) 12:52, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

Here is a good source from croton megalocarpus as a biofuel as compared to Jatropa. In respect for conflict of interest I'm going to stay away from the economic viability of croton megalocarpus oil (CMO) vs. Jatropa, but research does cite CMO as an alternative to diesel. I would appreciate an experienced editor to help me cite the sources I'm collecting. While I have done my research and reading for new Wikipedia editors, I want to be careful with what I propose here because of my associations to a CMO startup in Kenya. Natebeard (talk) 10:20, 7 January 2016 (UTC)Natebeard

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