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Common names include candelilla and wax plant, but the latter is more often applied to members of the unrelated genus Hoya. It is shrubby and has densely clustered, erect, essentially leafless stems that are covered in wax to prevent transpiration .
Candelilla wax is a wax derived from the leaves of the small candelilla shrub native to northern Mexico and the southwestern United States, Euphorbia antisyphilitica, from the family Euphorbiaceae. It is yellowish-brown, hard, brittle, aromatic, and opaque to translucent.
The common name "spurge" derives from the Middle English/Old French espurge ("to purge"), due to the use of the plant's sap as a purgative. The botanical name Euphorbia derives from Euphorbos, the Greek physician of King Juba II of Numidia and Mauretania (52–50 BC – 23 AD), who married the daughter of Anthony and Cleopatra. [11]
Wax plant may refer to: . Hoya, a tropical climbing plants genus in the family Apocynaceae native to southern Asia, Australia and Polynesia; Cynanchum elegans (white-flowered wax plant), a plant species found in New South Wales in Australia
The Sonoran Desert. The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert and ecoregion which covers large parts of the southwestern United States and of northwestern Mexico. With an area of 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 sq mi), it is the hottest desert in Mexico.
Euphorbia characias flowers. Euphorbiaceae (/ j uː ˈ f oʊ r b iː ˌ eɪ s i ˌ aɪ,-s iː ˌ iː /), the spurge family, is a large family of flowering plants.In English, they are also commonly called euphorbias, [2] which is also the name of the type genus of the family.
This is an alphabetical list of the Euphorbia species and notable intraspecific taxa. The list includes the former (and never generally accepted) genus Chamaesyce , as well as the related genera Elaeophorbia , Endadenium , Monadenium , Synadenium and Pedilanthus which according to recent DNA sequence -based phylogenetic studies are all nested ...
This is an alphabetical list of the Euphorbia species and notable infraspecific taxa. The list includes the former (and never generally accepted) genus Chamaesyce , as well as the related genera Elaeophorbia , Endadenium , Monadenium , Synadenium and Pedilanthus which according to recent DNA sequence -based phylogenetic studies are all nested ...