Euphorbia tithymaloides L.
Red slipper spurge
Perennial succulent, shrub grow to 15-2 m tall stem round, green, zig zag shape leaves sessile, glabrous, ovate, acuminate, entire edges The inflorescence is a apical or axillary dichotomous congested cyme near the stem's tip Each cyathia (flower structures containing separate male and female parts) is supported by a peduncle 3-8 mm long, red, green below and enclosed in bright red involucral, bracts, ovate and irregularly acuminate in shape  4-12 mm long, 2-5 mm wide Cyathia, bilaterally symmetrical, scentless, tube red green below, 7-15 mm long Nectar glands 4 Style up to 12 mm long
long, thin tube
Ornamental succulent shrub. medicinal
Pedilanthus tithymaloides (L) Poit
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