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Euphorbia unicornis in its natural habitat in Meluco district of Mozambique.
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Wild poinsettia, Mexican fire plant(Syn. Euphorbia heterophylla var. cyathophora, Poinsettia cyathophora)Euphorbiaceae (Spurge family)Native to USA (California to Florida, north to Virginia and the mid-west to Minnesota); eastern Mexico; the Caribbean (the West Indies); Central America (Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and Panama), and South America (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina and Chile)Naturalized in the Hawaiian Islands and first collected in 1917 on Oahu.Often growing in gardens as a weed in Hawaii, this photograph shows wild poinsettia growing along with other weedy Euphorbia spp. on the island of Oahu.Interestingly, the flowers and fruits are actually the tiny yellow parts in the center of the plant, and not the bright red bract-like leaves. The red "false" floral parts create the "flower" attraction for pollinators.Closeup
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Cultivada.Origen: Sudfrica
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A shrubby perennial herb of the section Trichadenia of Euphorbia. Here in a coastal vegetation in Mecufi District, Northern Mozambique.
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
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Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
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Lake Sevan, Armenia
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Euphorbia acanthothamnos Heldr. & Sart. ex Boiss..Greek Spiny Spurge, DE: Dornbusch-WolfsmilchSlo.: no nameDat.: April 26. 2016Lat.: 35.36129 Long.: 23.90723Code: Bot_951/216_DSC1677Habitat: light, mountain, cypresses (Cupressus sempervirens) wood, moderately steep mountain slope; south aspect, rocky, skeletal ground; in shade; elevation 1.030 m (4.100 feet); average precipitations ~ 1.250 mm/year, average temperature 6-8 deg C (estimated ?), Mediterranean phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil.Place: White Mountains, somewhat above the entrance to Samaria gorge, southeast side of Omalos plateau, West Crete, Mediterranean Sea, Greece EU. Comment: Euphorbia acanthothamnos is another member of the large group of grazing-resistant plants of Crete - thorny to perfection! It sometimes forms stands covering large areas of phrygana (a type of Mediterranean garrigue, an open community of dwarf evergreen shrubs). Numerous characteristically rounded, golden hummocks in bloom offer wonderful vistas. It can be found from sea level to montane elevations (up to 2.000 m on Crete). Euphorbia is a huge and very interesting genus. About 1.600 species are known spread all over the globe. Many of them are impressive from habitus aspect as well as capable to display wonderful and large scale color impressions. Plants are of very diverse habitus - from small herbs to trees and lianas. All of them have unusually shaped flowers not at all resembling 'traditionally' shaped having pistils, anthers, corolla and calyx. Male and female flowers are separate but in discrete groups (cyathia) set in a cup shaped involucre (whorls of special leaves - bracts- subtending flower cluster).Euphorbia acanthothamnos is a common plant but endemic to east Mediterranean and limited to Greece, Aegean islands, Crete and west Anatolian in Turkey. It forms low, rounded, intricately branched, regularly forked and dense shrubs. Its flowers stand in umbels with usually three to four branches. Next year these branches become woody and spine-tipped and die. However, they remain permanent weaponry against hungry sheep and goats.Ref.:(1) I. Schnfelder, P. Schnfelder, Kosmos Atlas Mittelmeer- und Kanarenflora, Kosmos, (2002), p 106.(2) M. Blamey, C. Grey-Wilson, Wild Flowers of the Mediterranean, A & C Black, London (2005), p 118.(3) V. Papiomytoglou, Wildblumen aus Friechenland, Mediterrane Editions (2006), p 88.(4) I. Schnfelder, P. Schnfelder, Was blht am Mittelmeer? Kosmos (2000), p 68.
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Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France
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One of the few succulent Euphorbia trees with red flowers. Here on the coast in Mecufi, south of Pemba town.
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Calcena: Aragn (Espaa)Sistema IbricoFamilia: EuphorbiaceaeDistribucin: Distribuida por el Mediterrneo occidental, hasta Italia y Creta y N de frica, en Marruecos y Libia. Se encuentra introducida en Inglaterra, Argentina y Nueva Zelanda. Aparece por casi toda la Pennsula Ibrica y Baleares, aunque rara hacia el interior, faltando en el Cantbrico y algunas provincias interiores. En Aragn se distribuye fundamentalmente por reas de media montaa caliza del Sistema Ibrico (Moncayo, Maestrazgo, Sierra de Javalambre, etc.) y Prepirineo. Baja a la Depresin del Ebro, aunque no alcanza las localidades ms ridas.Hbitat: Coloniza pie de cantiles, ramblas, pedregales o graveras, derrubios, matorrales, etc., en lugares abiertos y soleados. Secundariamente en lugares alterados pedregosos, como bordes de carreteras y caminos, cunetas, taludes, etc.Preferencia edfica: Indiferente. Se localiza con preferencia sobre calizas, aunque tambin puede colonizar suelos cidos o descarbonatados.Rango altitudinal: 110- 1500 ( 1920 ) mFenologa: Floracin. Marzo - Mayo ( Junio )Forma Biolgica: Nanofanerfito perennifolioExtractado del Atlas de la Flora de Aragn (Herbario de Jaca)
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field image of Euphorbia supina SPOTTED CREEPING SPURGE at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve - a large stand growing through a crack in the driveway
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Singapore, South West, Singapore
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North Carolina, United States
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Tabberabbera, Victoria, Australia
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Jardin des Plantes. Pars Francia
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2011-04-16 Lower Austria, district Wien-Umgebung (mixed forest; 382 msm Quadrant 7862/1).German name: Sss-Wolfsmilch
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Euphorbia geroldii. On the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as "Critically Endangered". It is also listed under CITES Appendix II. The native habitat of E. geroldii in Madagascar is limited to less than 1 km. The species is available in the nursery trade throughout much of the world. This plant was a birthday gift for my wife. She let me have one inflorescence to photograph.
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Euphorbia dendroides L.Tree Spurge, DE: Baumartige Wolfsmilch, Baum-Wolfsmilch, CR: drvolika mljeikaSlo.: no name.Dat.: Apr. 25. 2016Lat.: 35.55908 Long.: 23.60272Code: Bot_950/2016_DSC1649Habitat: stony mountain ravine close to sea shore, calcareous ground, full sun, warm place, south to east aspect, elevation 270 m (890 feet); average precipitations ~ 960 mm/year, average temperature about 18 deg C, Mediterranean phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil among rocks.Place: Northwest Crete, mountain ravine half way to Balos, east side of peninsula Korykos, Island Crete, Greece EC.Comment: Genus Euphorbia is huge. All kind of imaginable plants constitute it. In North and Central Europe they are mostly small and herbaceous and more to the south one goes, more species are woody, bush and tree like. Many of them are very beautiful, either from the standpoint of colors or shapes of leaves or their unusually built flowers.Euphorbia dendroides is spread in all Mediterranean countries except Cyprus. It is one of the most beautiful woody species. Particularly the colors of their flowers and leaves, which are yellow and green in early spring, impress. Toward the end of springtime when higher and higher temperatures and drought push forth they change their color to all kind of orange, red, wine red, brown-violet, before they fall off in summer. Large, up to 2.5 m high, rounded bushes, often forming large colonies in more or less barren rocky mountain slopes turn to marvelous vistas. My trip to this steep, wild, incredible thorny, trail-less ravine of peninsula Korykos in northwest Crete was an unforgettable experienceRef.:(1) I. Schnfelder, P. Schnfelder, Kosmos Atlas Mittelmeer- und Kanarenflora, Kosmos, (2002), p 106.(2) V. Popiomytoglou, Woldblumen Griechenland, Mediterraneo Edition (2006), p 89.(3) M. Blamey, C. Grey-Wilson, Wild Flowers of the Mediterranean, A & C Black, London (2005), p 118.(4) R. Domac, Flora Hrvatske (Flora of Croatia) (in Croatian), kolska Knjiga, Zagreb (1994), p 61.(5) D. Seidel, Blumen am Mittelmeer, BLV (2002), p 215.
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Euphorbia illirica Lam., syn.: Euphorbia villosa Waldst. & Kit. ex Willd., Euphorbia pilosa var. illirica (Lam.) Nyman Family: EuphorbiaceaeHairy Spurge, DE: Wollige Wolfsmilch, Zottige WolfsmilchSlo.: dlakavi mleekDat.: May 11. 2012Lat.: 45.79845 Long.: 14.53422Code: Bot_616/2012_IMG9313Habitat: damp grassland near mixed wood edge, flat terrain, open, mostly sunny place; elevation 755 m (2.500 feet); average precipitations 1.500 - 1.600 mm/year, average temperature 8-9 deg C, Dinaric phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil.Place: Bloke flats, north of the road from settlement Zakraj to village Velike Bloke, Notranjska, Slovenia EC.Comment: Genus spurge (Euphorbia) is the second largest in the kingdom of flowering plants. Its species are growing all over the world. More than 2.000 species are described, about 100 are growing in Europe and about 40 in Slovenia. They are extremely diverse, from tiny annual herbs to large trees. Many are very beautiful, of fantastic colors and bizarre shapes. Their flowers are something special and much differently structured than of 'common' flowers. They all extract mildly poisonous, milky, white latex when damaged. This makes them easy to recognize.Euphorbia illirica is a Eurasians floral element (Ref.: 5). It grows in damp meadows, along river banks, open woods and among tall herbs from lowlands to subalpine elevations (Ref.: 6). One can find it from Spain in the west to the Caucasus in the east. In the Alps it is known only from their extreme northeast part and from a few places in their southwest part (Ref: 5). In Slovenia and neighboring countries Austria, Italy and Croatia it is a rare, endangered and protected plant. Although it is widely distributed, it is very sparsely scattered. In spite of its conspicuous and tall (up to 1 m) appearance, it is seldom encountered.The name Euphorbia illirica became valid current name only recently. It has been generally known as Euphorbia villosa for more than 100 years. Many authors, if not majority, still use the old name (more on history of these names see Ref.: 2). Protected according to: Uredba o zavarovanih prostoiveih rastlinskih vrstah, poglavje A, Uradni list RS, t. 46/2004 (Regulation of protected wild plants, chapter A, Official Gazette of Republic Slovenia, no. 46/2004), (2004). Pravilnik o uvrstitvi ogroenih rastlinskih in ivalskih vrst v rdei seznam, Uradni list RS, t. 82/2002 (Regulation of enlisting of endangered plant and animal species onto Red List, Official Gazette of Republic Slovenia, no. 82/2002) (2002). Enlisted in the Slovene Red List of rare and endangered species, marked by "V" representing a vulnerable species.Ref.:(1) Personal communication with Mr. Branko Dolinar,
www.orhideje.si(2) B. Frajman, Proposal to reject the name Euphorbia illirica (Euphorbiaceae) Taxon 63; 4, (2014), p 943.(3) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 458.(4) A. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 372. (5) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 1., Haupt (2004), p 998.(6) B. Frajman, Revision of the Genus Euphorbia in Slovenia, Graduation Thesis, University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty (2001); (
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Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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This shrub is endemic to Norfolk Island and critically endangered.