Manihot caudata Greenm.

THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
plants OF MEXICO, State of Michoacan
no. £09 Manihot caudata Greenm.
S* shore of Lago Chapala, ca. £ mi. from border of Jalisco,
roadsides and fencerows. Trees with trunk diameters to 30
cm. at base. Younger stems red-brown, shiny; epidermis
peeling from older stems. Leaves glaucous beneath, bril-
liant bluish-green (10 G 6/8*), dark green (5 G 3/U*) above;
petioles dark red (2*5 R 3/7*) on mature vegetative leaves,
lounger leaves and buds strong yellow green GY 6/8*).
* Nickerson Color Fan, Am. Hort. Counc.
collected by David J• Rogers
July 28, 1963
Rogers, D. J. & S. G. Appan, taxon no. 13
in Flora Neotropica Monograph No. 13
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