Our Castor Beans Flower Seeds yield one of the fastest growing annual plants, though in the right climate it can live for an extended period and become woody and quite tree-like. Most often used for privacy hedges or to control moles, this plant has large, exotic leaves able to grow up to 3-feet across with the plant itself growing up to 15-feet in one year!
Castor Beans are botanically known as Ricinus Communis and is distantly related to the true rubber tree, crown of thorns, cassava, tung oil tree and the poinsettia. A very large plant with palmate-lobed leaves that are quite recognizable, this particularly robust annual can thrive as a perennial for years in areas where frost is not a common occurrence. Be aware that the “beans”, or seeds, it produces, which are slightly larger than pinto beans and beautifully mottled, are highly attractive to children and also highly poisonous. Yes, this is the same plant from which Castor Oil comes from, one of the most valuable oils world-wide, but the beans are definitely not for human or pet consumption. A plant that grows this quickly will perform best with regular feeding. We suggest using Espoma Plant-tone®, specially formulated to provide the very best nutrition.
Each order of our fresh Castor Beans seeds is filled by hand, put into a resealable plastic bag and then placed into a labeled seed packet. It is our goal to provide our customers the best in freshness and quality.
