What is "crotons"

Usage examples of "crotons".

To the left, not yet screened by the young oleanders and crotons that had been planted for this eventual purpose, were the kitchens and laundry and staff quarters, the usual back quarters of a luxury hotel.

The terrain was higher here, with a growth of crotons, calabash trees, custard apples and even guavas cactus.

The pine trees, the royal palms, the tulip trees, the avocados, the wild plum, the crotons, the house and the horses.

The lakes were bordered by tall Dade County pines, and the residents had planted their yards with orange, grapefruit, and mango trees, hedges of Barbados cherry and screw-leaf crotons, and several varieties of palms, including a few stately Royals.

It took Hoke twenty minutes to find his teeth, but they had landed in a cluster of screw-leaved crotons and weren't damaged.