Spurge



         



Red Spurge (Euphorbia cotinifolia)]] Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Euphorbiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Genus: Euphorbia
Species See text

</table> Spurges (genus Euphorbia) are a large and variable worldwide genus of more than 1,500 plants that are mostly shrubby, herbaceous succulents. They vary from flat creepers to shrubs and trees. Some even look like cactus plants. They afford an acrid, often poisonous milky juice. Some of them are armed with thorns. Most plants of the spurge genus yield powerful emetic and cathartic products.
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Species

  • Euphorbia aaron-rossii : Marble Canyon Spurge
  • Euphorbia acanthothamnos : Greek Spiny Spurge
  • Euphorbia agraria : Urban Spurge
  • Euphorbia albomarginata : Rattlesnake Weed.
  • Euphorbia amygdaloides : Wood Spurge
  • Euphorbia antisyphilitica : Wax Plant, Candelilla
  • Euphorbia bicolor : Snow-on-the-prairie
  • Euphorbia bifurcata : Forked Spurge
  • Euphorbia bilobata : Black-seed Spurge, Blackseed Spurge
  • Euphorbia biumbellata
  • Euphorbia brachycera : Horned Spurge
  • Euphorbia brittingeri
  • Euphorbia caunculata : Waterfall
  • Euphorbia chamaesula : Mountain Spurge
  • Euphorbia characias
  • Euphorbia commutata : Tinted Euphorbia, Tinted Woodland Spurge
  • Euphorbia corollata : Flowering Spurge
  • Euphorbia cotinifolia : Mexican Shrubby Spurge, Red Spurge
  • Euphorbia crenulata : Chinese Caps
  • Euphorbia cuphosperma
  • Euphorbia curtisii : -- Curtis' Spurge
  • Euphorbia cyathophora : Fire-on-the-mountain, Wild Poinsettia
  • Euphorbia cyparissias : Cypress Spurge
  • Euphorbia mellifera
  • Euphorbia mercurialina : Mercury Spurge
  • Euphorbia milii : Crown-of-thorns, Christplant
  • Euphorbia misera : Cliff Spurge
  • Euphorbia myrsinites : Myrtle Spurge
  • Euphorbia nephradenia : Pana Spurge
  • Euphorbia neriifolia : Indian Spurgetree
  • Euphorbia nudicaulis
  • Euphorbia oblongata : Eggleaf Spurge, Oblong Spurge
  • Euphorbia oerstediana : West Indian Spurge
  • Euphorbia palmeri : Wood Spurge, Woodland Spurge
  • Euphorbia palustris
  • Euphorbia paralias : Sea Spurge
  • Euphorbia peplidion : Low Spurge
  • Euphorbia peplus : Petty-leaved Spurge, Petty Spurge
  • Euphorbia petiolaris : Manchineel Berry
  • Euphorbia pinea
  • Euphorbia pinetorum : Pineland Spurge
  • Euphorbia platyphylla
  • Euphorbia platyphyllos: Broad-leaved Spurge
  • Euphorbia polyphylla : Lesser Florida Spurge
  • Euphorbia X pseudoesula : Spurge
  • Euphorbia pubentissima : False Flowering Spurge
  • Euphorbia pulcherrima : Pointsettia
  • Euphorbia purpurea : Darlington's Glade Spurge
  • Euphorbia radians : Sun Spurge
  • Euphorbia resinifera: Resin Spurge
  • Euphorbia rigida
  • Euphorbia roemerana :
  • Euphorbia roemeriana : Roemer's Spurge
  • Euphorbia segetalis : Grainfield Spurge
  • Euphorbia serrata : Serrated Spurge, Toothed Spurge
  • Euphorbia spathulata : Roughpod Spurge, Warty Spurge
  • Euphorbia spinosa
  • Euphorbia strictior : Panhandle Spurge
  • Euphorbia supine
  • Euphorbia telephioides : Telephus Spurge
  • Euphorbia terracina : Geraldton Carnation Weed
  • Euphorbia tetrapora : Weak Spurge
  • Euphorbia texana : Texas Spurge
  • Euphorbia tirucalli : Milkbush, Indian Tree Spurge
  • Euphorbia trichotoma : Sanddune Spurge
  • Euphorbia villosa
  • Euphorbia virosa
  • Euphorbia wrightii : Wright's Spurge


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