jatropha

As nouns the difference between jojoba and jatropha

is that jojoba is a shrub native to the southwestern United States and to Mexico; the only plant known to store liquid wax in its seed, species: Simmondsia chinensis while jatropha is any of several plants, of the genus Jatropha, native to the Northern Hemisphere; some have medicinal attributes and others are grown as a source of biodiesel.

As a proper noun jatropha

is .

As an adjective jatrophic is

of or pertaining to physic nuts, the seeds of plants of the genus jatropha .