Caribbean Copper Plant scientific name is Euphorbia Cotinifolia is native to Mexico and South America. It is also called tropical smoke bush tree. This is an evergreen red color tree. Treated as a shrub it generally grows 10 to 15 ft (3.0 to 4.6 m) in height but it can be grown as a tree reaching 30 ft (9.1 m). Small white flowers with creamy bracts bloom at the ends of the branches in summer. The purplish stems, when broken, exude a sap that is a skin irritant. It also has a medic value, as a medicine, it has been used in folk remedies as both an emetic and cathartic substance. Fishermen have been known to add the sap to water in fishing grounds to stun fish and force them to float to the top. It was also historically used as a poison for arrowheads by the natives of Curaçao. This is an ornamental tree so people like to plant it in their garden of in the tub.
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