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Euphorbia pulcherrima

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Identification
Euphorbia pulcherrima
Related name
  • Euphorbia pulcherrima
Common name
  • poinsettia; étoile de Noel (Berhaut)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • poinsettia., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for EUPHORBIA pulcherrima Klotzsch [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by S. Carter (Euphorbia, Monadenium), M. G. Gilbert (Acalypha, Andrachne, Antidesma, Bridelia, Caperonia, Cephalocroton, Chrozophora, Clutia, Dalechampia, Flueggea, Givotia, Manihot, Meineckia, Micrococca, Oldfieldia, Phyllanthus, Ricinus, Suregada, Tragia), and M. Thulin (Croton, Drypetes, Erythrococca, Excoecaria, Jatropha, Spirostachys and Thecacoris) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
EUPHORBIA pulcherrima Klotzsch [family EUPHORBIACEAE], (1834).
Information
Robust ornamental shrub 2–4 m high; branches stout, softly woody, with pronounced leaf-scars; leaves to 20 x 12 cm; cymes with numerous brilliant red leaf-like bracts; cyathia 8 mm in diam.; gland with an elliptic opening 5 mm wide, yellow-rimmed.
Range
Cultivated at least in S2 (Mogadishu and Afgooye) native of Central America.
Notes
Poinsettia (Eng.).

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