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Encyclopedia Britannica



EUPHORBIA

This article appears in Volume V09, Page 892 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EUD-FAT
EUPHORBIA , in botany, a, large genus of
plants
  from which the order
Euphorbiaceae
  takes its name. It includes more than 600 species and is of almost world-wide distribution. It is represented in Britain by the spurgessmall, generally smooth, herbaceous
plants
  with simple leaves and inconspicuous
flowers
  arranged in small cup-like heads (cyathia). The cyathium is a characteristic feature of the genus, and consists of a number of male
flowers
 , each reduced to a single stamen, surrounding a central female flower which consists only of a stalked pistil; the group of flowers is enveloped in a cup formed by the
union
  of four or five bracts, the upper
part
  of which bears thick, conspicuous, gland-like structures, which in exotic species are often brilliantly. coloured, giving the cyathium the
appearance
  of a single flower. Another characteristic is the presence of a milky juice, or latex; in the tissues of the plant. In one
section
  of the genus the plants, resemble cacti, having a thick succulent
stem
  and ,branches with the leaves either very small or completely reduced to a small
wart
 -like excrescence, with which is generally associated a tuft of spines (a reduced shoot). These occur in the warmer parts of the world as a type of dry country or
desert
  vegetation. The only species of note are E. fulgens and E. jacquiniaeflora, for the warm greenhouse; E. Cyparissias (the Cypress spurge), E. Wulfeni, E. Lathyris and E. Myrsinites, for the open air.


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