The tree has many types: eel-tailed gold and silver, jackfruit leaf gold, etc. Scientific name: Codieaum variegatum. Belongs to the plant family: Euphorbiaceae - castor family. Native to Malaysia, the Pacific Islands and northern Australia. Shrub or small tree, trunk with opaque latex, much branched, low. Common tree 30-40cm tall. Hard leaves are ovate-shaped with pointed tips, long wedge tails, mixed colors: green, white, yellow or red, creating alternating bands. Yellow and blue are dominant. The flowers are small, squirrel-shaped at the top, often curved, bearing many small milky white flowers. It is a light-loving plant that can tolerate partial shade, adapts to loose, high-humidity soils and grows quickly. Can live in arid places. Leaves have medicinal properties, used fresh pounding broken bones. In Yunnan (China), the leaves are used as a medicine to clear the heat of waste, spread congestion to treat coughs, swelling and pain. The other forms of leaves all have the same eff
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