euphorbia

1. Type genus of the Euphorbiaceae: very large genus of diverse plants all having milky juice (synset 112938098)
   is a type of: rosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plants
   member holonym:

   • spurge - any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice
   • caper spurge, euphorbia lathyris, mole plant, myrtle spurge - poisonous Old World spurge; adventive in America; seeds yield a purgative oil
   • devil's milk, euphorbia helioscopia, sun spurge, wartweed, wartwort - not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward the sun
   • devil's milk, euphorbia peplus, petty spurge - an Old World spurge introduced as a weed in the eastern United States
   • euphorbia caput-medusae, euphorbia medusae, medusa's head - African dwarf succulent perennial shrub with numerous slender drooping branches
   • euphorbia corollata, flowering spurge, tramp's spurge, wild spurge - common perennial United States spurge having showy white petallike bracts
   • euphorbia marginata, ghost weed, snow-in-summer, snow-on-the-mountain - annual spurge of western United States having showy white-bracted flower clusters and very poisonous milk
   • cypress spurge, euphorbia cyparissias - Old World perennial having foliage resembling cypress; naturalized as a weed in the United States
   • euphorbia esula, leafy spurge, wolf's milk - tall European perennial naturalized and troublesome as a weed in eastern North America
   • euphorbia hirsuta, hairy spurge - much-branched hirsute weed native to northeastern North America
   • christmas flower, christmas star, euphorbia pulcherrima, lobster plant, mexican flameleaf, painted leaf, poinsettia - tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers
   • euphorbia heterophylla, japanese poinsettia, mole plant, paint leaf - showy poinsettia found from the southern United States to Peru
   • euphorbia cyathophora, fire-on-the-mountain, mexican fire plant, painted leaf - poinsettia of United States and eastern Mexico; often confused with Euphorbia heterophylla
   • euphorbia amygdaloides, wood spurge - European perennial herb with greenish yellow terminal flower clusters
   • candelilla, euphorbia antisyphilitica - wax-coated shrub of northern Mexico and southwestern United States
   • dwarf spurge, euphorbia exigua - European erect or depressed annual weedy spurge adventive in northeastern United States
   • euphorbia fulgens, scarlet plume - Mexican shrub often cultivated for its scarlet-bracted flowers
   • cactus euphorbia, euphorbia ingens, naboom - small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra
   • christ plant, christ thorn, crown of thorns, euphorbia milii - somewhat climbing bushy spurge of Madagascar having long woody spiny stems with few leaves and flowers with scarlet bracts
   • euphorbia dentata, toothed spurge - an annual weed of northeastern North America with dentate leaves
   belongs to: euphorbiaceae, family euphorbiaceae, spurge family - a family of plants of order Geraniales
   same as: genus euphorbia

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