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  • COMMON NAME: desert spurge, Japanese poinsettia, Mexican fire plant, milk weed, milkweed.
  • ARABIC: لبينة
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Euphorbia heterophylla L.
  • SYNONYMS: E. Cyathophora
  • FAMILY: EUPHORBIACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://www.floraofqatar.com/euphorbia_heterophylla.htm
Pale green, annual, erect herb, with milky juice, 30-50 cm high. Stems simple or sometimes branched, glabrous rarely hairy. Leaves 3-8 cm long, 2-4 cm broad, ovate, or elliptic to lanceolate, entire or subentire, acute, tapering at base, petiolate, lower leaves opposite; upper alternate in cluster rosette around the terminal inflorescences. Flowers many, with colored (red) base bracts, in flat shaped racemes, of single gland per cyathium. Capsule 4-5 mm across, glabrous. Seeds 2-3 mm long, dark-brown to blackish. Flowering from March to August.
Weed in cultivated fields and gardens.
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