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Euphorbia as a small tree: Euphorbia dendroides. Euphorbia is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants, commonly called spurge, in the family Euphorbiaceae.. Euphorbias range from tiny annual plants to large and long-lived trees, [2] with perhaps the tallest being Euphorbia ampliphylla at 30 m (98 ft) or more.
Euphorbieae (commonly called Euphorbia) has a sap inside of it - that when it breaks or is cut - comes out of it, and tends to irritate the skin. Euphorbieae were thought to be a bisexual flower, however, research has shown that there are many male flowers surround one female flower.
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.
Euphorbia helioscopia, the sun spurge or madwoman's milk, [1] is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae. It is a herbaceous annual plant, native to most of Europe, northern Africa, and eastward through most of Asia. [2] [3] [4] Additional folk names include wart spurge, summer spurge, umbrella milkweed, and wolf's-milk ...
Euphorbia cotinifolia is a broadleaf red shrub native to Mexico and South America. Treated as a shrub, it reaches 10 to 15 ft (3.0 to 4.6 m) but 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. [1]
Euphorbia characias, the Mediterranean spurge [2] or Albanian spurge, [3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae typical of the Mediterranean vegetation. It is an upright, compact evergreen shrub growing to 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in) tall and wide.
The flowers are unisexual and found in axillary cymes at each leaf node, held as dense balls of flowers and fruit capsules usually close to the stem, the flower glands with tiny white/pinkish petal-like appendages. The fruit is a capsule with three valves (creating 3 sides), uniformly appressed hairy, containing tiny (0.7–0.9 mm), oblong ...
Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wikispecies; ... Euphorbia bourgaeana is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae.