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GENUS OF PLANTS
Adenopetalum; Adenorima; Agaloma; Aklemia; Alectoroctonum; Allobia; Anthacantha; Aplarina; Bojera; Ceraselma; Characias; Chylogala; Ctenadena; Cystidospermum; Dactylanthes; Dematra; Dichrophyllum; Dichylium; Diplocyathium; Ditritra; Endoisila; Epurga; Euforbia; Eumecanthus; Euphorbiastrum; Euphorbiodendron; Euphorbiopsis; Galarhoeus; Kanopikon; Kobiosis; Lacanthis; Lathyris; Lepadena; Lophobios; Lyciopsis; Medusea; Nisomenes; Ossifraga; Peccana; Petalandra; Pleuradena; Sclerocyathium; Sterigmanthe; Tithymalopsis; Tithymalus; Torfasadis; Treisia; Tricherostigma; Tumalis; Xamesike; Zalitea; Zygophyllidium; Pedilanthus; Crepidaria; Diadenaria; Hexadenia; Tithymaloides; Ventenatia; Cubanthus; Elaeophorbia; Endadenium; Monadenium; Synadenium; Euphorbias; Euphorbiinae; ʻakoko; `akoko; Spurge; Catapuce; Spurges; Euphorbes; Athymalus; Aklema; Euphorbion; Galorhoeus; Keraselma; Lortia; Murtekias; Stenadenium; Tirucalia; Tithymalodes; Euphorbia anoplia; Euphorbia astrophora; Euphorbia atlantis; Euphorbia muricata
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euphorbia         
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¦ noun a plant of a genus that comprises the spurges. [Genus Euphorbia.]
Origin
ME: from L. euphorbea, named after Euphorbus, Greek physician to the reputed discoverer of the plant, Juba II of Mauretania.
Euphorbia         
·noun Spurge, or bastard spurge, a genus of plants of many species, mostly shrubby, herbaceous succulents, affording an acrid, milky juice. Some of them are armed with thorns. Most of them yield powerful emetic and cathartic products.
Catapuce         
·noun Spurge.

Wikipedia

Euphorbia

Euphorbia is a very large and diverse genus of flowering plants, commonly called spurge, in the family Euphorbiaceae. "Euphorbia" is sometimes used in ordinary English to collectively refer to all members of Euphorbiaceae (in deference to the type genus), not just to members of the genus.

Euphorbias range from tiny annual plants to large and long-lived trees. with perhaps the tallest being Euphorbia ampliphylla at 98 feet (thirty meters) or more. The genus has roughly 2,000 members, making it one of the largest genera of flowering plants. It also has one of the largest ranges of chromosome counts, along with Rumex and Senecio. Euphorbia antiquorum is the type species for the genus Euphorbia. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753 in Species Plantarum.

Some euphorbias are widely available commercially, such as poinsettias at Christmas. Some are commonly cultivated as ornamentals, or collected and highly valued for the aesthetic appearance of their unique floral structures, such as the crown of thorns plant (Euphorbia milii). Succulent euphorbias from the deserts of Southern Africa and Madagascar have evolved physical characteristics and forms similar to cacti of North and South America, so they are often incorrectly referred to as cacti. Some are used as ornamentals in landscaping, because of beautiful or striking overall forms, and drought and heat tolerance.

Euphorbia all share the feature of having a poisonous, latex-like sap and unique floral structures. When viewed as a whole, the head of flowers looks like a single flower (a pseudanthium). It has a unique kind of pseudanthium, called a cyathium, where each flower in the head is reduced to its barest essential part needed for sexual reproduction. The individual flowers are either male or female, with the male flowers reduced to only the stamen, and the females to the pistil. These flowers have no sepals, petals, or other parts that are typical of flowers in other kinds of plants. Structures supporting the flower head and other structures underneath have evolved to attract pollinators with nectar, and with shapes and colors that function in a way petals and other flower parts do in other flowers. It is the only genus of plants that has all three kinds of photosynthesis, CAM, C3 and C4.

Examples of use of euphorbia
1. The botanical name of the poinsettia, Euphorbia pulcherrima, means "very beautiful." Sources: University of illinois Extension, www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/ poinsettia/facts.html; Paul Ecke Ranch, www.pauleckepoinsettias. com/history.html
2. A few years ago, in the middle of the African bush, a farmer we were staying with stopped his truck in exasperation to pluck a plastic bag from a euphorbia plant.
3. A native of Mexico, the poinsettia (Euphorbia Pulcherrima) – meaning ‘most beautiful‘ – took its name from Joel Roberts Poinsett, the South Carolina–born and British–educated politician who was sent to be the first U.S. ambassador to Mexico from 1825 to 182'. First cultivated by the Aztecs, who called it Cuetlayochitl, it became one of Poinsett‘s favourite flowers and he sent specimens back to the U.S. where they soon flourished.