Bixa platycarpa
Lipsticktree
Bixa orellana
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- Botanical name
- Bixa orellana
- Also known as
- Annatto, Arnatto, Lipsticktree, Roucu, Rucu
- Family
- Bixaceae
- Genus
- Bixa
- Reference
- World Flora Online
How to grow Lipsticktree
We have not written a growing guide for this species yet.
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Other names for this plant
These names have all been used for Bixa orellana but are no longer the accepted name. You may still meet them on old labels, in books, or in nursery catalogues.
Bixa acuminata
Bixa americana
Bixa katangensis
Bixa odorata
Bixa odorata
Bixa orellana f. leiocarpa
Bixa orellana var. leiocarpa
Bixa orellana var. orellana
Bixa orleana
Bixa purpurea
Bixa tinctaria
Bixa tinctoria
Bixa upatensis
Orellana americana
Orellana americana var. leiocarpa
Orellana americana var. normalis
Orellana orellana
Others in Bixa
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