#family_Euphorbiaceae__Euphorbiaceae__spurge_family a family of plants of order Geraniales
supertype: #rosid_dicot_family__rosiddicotfamily a family of dicotyledonous plants
member of: #order_Geraniales
member: #genus_Euphorbia__Euphorbia type genus of the Euphorbiaceae: very large genus of diverse plants all having milky juice
member: #spurge any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice
member: #caper_spurge__caperspurge__myrtle_spurge__mole_plant__Euphorbia_lathyris poisonous Old World spurge; adventive in America; seeds yield a purgative oil
member: #sun_spurge__sunspurge__wartweed__wartwort__devil's_milk__devil'smilk__euphorbiahelioscopia not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward the sun
member: #petty_spurge__pettyspurge__devil's_milk__devil'smilk__euphorbiapeplu an Old World spurge introduced as a weed in the eastern United States
member: #medusa's_head__Euphorbia_medusae__Euphorbia_caput-medusae African dwarf succulent perennial shrub with numerous slender drooping branches
member: #wild_spurge__flowering_spurge__floweringspurge__tramp's_spurge__tramp'sspurge__Euphorbia_corollata common perennial United States spurge having showy white petallike bracts
member: #snow-on-the-mountain__snow-in-summer__ghost_weed__ghostweed__Euphorbia_marginata annual spurge of western United States having showy white-bracted flower clusters and very poisonous milk
member: #cypress_spurge__cypressspurge__Euphorbia_cyparissias Old World perennial having foliage resembling cypress; naturalized as a weed in the United States
member: #leafy_spurge__leafyspurge__wolf's_milk__Euphorbia_esula tall European perennial naturalized and troublesome as a weed in eastern North America
member: #hairy_spurge__hairyspurge__Euphorbia_hirsuta much-branched hirsute weed native to northeastern North America
member: #poinsettia__Christmas_star__Christmas_flower__lobster_plant__lobsterplant__Mexican_flameleaf__painted_leaf__paintedleaf__Euphorbia_pulcherrima tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers
member: #Japanese_poinsettia__mole_plant__paint_leaf__paintleaf__Euphorbia_heterophylla showy poinsettia found from the southern United States to Peru
member: #fire-on-the-mountain__painted_leaf__paintedleaf__Mexican_fire_plant__Euphorbia_cyathophora poinsettia of United States and eastern Mexico; often confused with Euphorbia heterophylla
member: #wood_spurge__Euphorbia_amygdaloides European perennial herb with greenish yellow terminal flower clusters
member: #Euphorbia_antisyphilitica__candelilla wax-coated shrub of northern Mexico and southwestern United States
member: #dwarf_spurge__dwarfspurge__Euphorbia_exigua European erect or depressed annual weedy spurge adventive in northeastern United States
member: #scarlet_plume__scarletplume__Euphorbia_fulgens Mexican shrub often cultivated for its scarlet-bracted flowers
member: #naboom__cactus_euphorbia__Euphorbia_ingens small tree of dry open parts of southern Africa having erect angled branches suggesting candelabra
member: #Christ_thorn__crown_of_thorns__Christ_plant__Euphorbia_milii somewhat climbing bushy spurge of Madagascar having long woody spiny stems with few leaves and flowers with scarlet bracts
member: #toothed_spurge__toothedspurge__Euphorbia_dentata an annual weed of northeastern North America with dentate leaves
member: #genus_Acalypha__Acalypha a genus of herbs and shrubs belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae
member: #three-seeded_mercury__Acalypha_virginica weedy herb of eastern North America
member: #genus_Croton tropical shrubs and herbs; source of croton oil
member: #Croton_tiglium__croton tropical Asiatic shrub; source of croton oil
member: #cascarilla__Croton_eluteria West Indian shrub with aromatic bark
member: #genus_Codiaeum__Codiaeum evergreen tropical trees and shrubs with thick and colorful leathery leaves; Malaya and Pacific islands
member: #croton__Codiaeum_variegatum grown in many varieties for their brightly colored foliage; widely cultivated as a houseplant
member: #genus_Mercurialis__Mercurialis a genus of slender herbs belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae
member: #herb_mercury__herbs_mercury__herbsmercury__boys-and-girls__Mercurialis_annua Eurafrican annual naturalized in America as a weed; formerly dried for use as a purgative, diuretic or antisyphilitic
member: #dog's_mercury__dog'smercury__dog_mercury__dogmercury__Mercurialis_perennis European perennial weedy plant with greenish flowers
member: #genus_Ricinus__Ricinus a genus of herb having only one known species: castor-oil plant
member: #castor-oil_plant__castor_bean_plant__palma_christi__palmachristi__palma_christ__palmachrist__ricinuscommuni large shrub of tropical Africa and Asia having large palmate leaves and spiny capsules containing seeds that are the source of castor oil and ricin; widely naturalized throughout the tropics
member: #genus_Cnidoscolus__Cnidoscolus a genus of perennial plant with bristles; belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae
member: #spurge_nettle__tread-softly__treadsoftly__devil_nettle__devilnettle__pica-pica__Cnidoscolus_urens__Jatropha_urens__Jatropha_stimulosus a stinging herb of tropical America
member: #genus_Jatropha__Jatropha a mainly tropical genus of American plant belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae
member: #physic_nut__Jatropha_curcus small tropical American tree yielding purple dye and a tanning extract and bearing physic nuts containing a purgative oil that is poisonous in large quantities
member: #genus_Hevea__Hevea small genus of South American trees yielding latex
member: #genus_Manihot__Manihot genus of economically important tropical plants: cassava
member: #casava__cassava any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch
member: #genus_Aleurites__Aleurites candlenut
member: #varnish_tree__varnishtree__Aleurites_moluccana large tree native to southeastern Asia; the nuts yield oil used in varnishes; nut kernels strung together are used locally as candles
member: #tung_tree__tung__tung-oil_tree__Aleurites_fordii Chinese tree bearing seeds that yield tung oil
member: #genus_Pedilanthus__Pedilanthus tropical American succulent shrubs
member: #slipper_spurge__slipperspurge__slipper_plant__slipperplant any of several tropical American shrubby succulent plants resembling cacti but having foot-shaped bracts
member: #genus_Sebastiana__Sebastiana Mexican spurges
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