Naturalised
Euphorbia_heterophylla_2 © OBG
Euphorbia_heterophylla_3 © OBG
Euphorbia_heterophylla_4 © OBG
Euphorbia_heterophylla © OBG
Erect annual herb ; up to 0 . 5 m high , often tinged red . Stems hollow , simple or sparsely branched , pubescent , purple-green . Leaves opposite , 4-8 x 2-5 cm , dull green , petiolate , ovate-lanceolate , apex acute , base tapering , margin irregularly serrate , pubescent on the undersurface with multicellular hairs . Inflorescences cyathia densely clustered in terminal and axillary cymes ; peduncle 6-11 mm . Flowers cyathia ; glands yellow , with barrel-shaped involucres , glabrous ; male flowers bracteoles few , ligulate , feathery ; female flower ovary pedicellate , glabrous or occasionally with minute scattered hairs . Fruit capsule , 4-5 mm , deeply 3-lobed , yellow-green , glabrous . Seeds 2 . 6 × 2 . 4 mm , conical with acute apex , bluntly verrucose , blackish-brown . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 2) .
No Data
Least Concern (LC) - Global Assessment
Frequent
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Cyathophora heterophyla (L.) Raf.
Euphorbia heterophylla var. genuina Boiss.
Poinsettia heterophylla (L.) Klotzsch & Garcke
Tithymalus heterophyllus (L.) Haw.
No data
maintenanceAr.Item1
Fiddler's Spurge
Mexican Fireplant
Painted Euphorbia
Japanese Poinsettia
Desert Poinsettia
Wild Poinsettia
Fire on the Mountain
Paintedleaf
Painted Spurge
Milkweed
Kaliko Plant
Not used traditionally.
*Ghazanfar, S. (2003). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.1: Piperaceae – Primulaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 90-72619-55-2 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *https://www.wordsense.eu *Miller, A., Morris, M. (1988). Plants of Dhofar, the Southern Region of Oman: Traditional, Economic, and Medicinal Uses. Published by Office of the Adviser for Conservation of the Environment, Diwan of Royal Court, Sultanate of Oman; ISBN 10: 0715708082 ISSN 13: 9780715708088. *Patzelt, A. Pysek, P. Pergl, J. Van Kleunen, M. (2022). Alien flora of Oman: invasion status, taxonomic composition, habitats, origin, and pathways of introduction. Doi.org/10.1007/s10530-021-02711-4. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
