Euphorbia bupleurifolia Jacq.

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Origin and Habitat: South Africa, widespread in the Eastern Cape Province and KwaZulu-Natal (from Grahamstown to Queenstown and in the Kentani District near Black Rock cove in the eastern region).
Habitat: It grows in tropical subarid grassland, open thicket and Savanna usually in shallow soils with a thin cover of grass. It is a widespread and relatively common species that is being harvested in large volumes for medicinal use in the western part of its range. There are concerns that the volumes harvested may be unsustainable.

Synonyms:

• Euphorbia bupleurifolia Jacq.

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Common Names include:
ENGLISH: Pine-cone Plant, Hare's-Ear- leaved Spurge, Cone-shaped Spurge, Rabbit-eared Spurge
AFRIKAANS (Afrikaans): Melkbol
RUSSIAN (Русский): Молочай володушколистный
XHOSA (isiXhosa): Insema, Intsele
ZULU (isiZulu): Inkamamasane, Insema

 

Description: Euphorbia bupleurifoliaSN|17510]]SN|17510]] is a low-growing, spineless, plant with a short caudiciform trunk that looks like a small pine cone topped with a crown of green leaves. The whole plant abounds with milky juice.
Stem: It has a brown, spherical barrel-shaped or columnar caudex usually unbranched or occasionally few branched, that look like a pine-cone or a woody trunk. The stem which does not photosynthesise is a reserve for water, and usually does not grow much higher than around 20 cm and 7,5 cm thick. The trunk has a geometrically-neat tubercled surface, the tubercles (tuberculiform corky scars occasioned by falling away of the old leaves) are prominent dark reddish-brown up to 3 mm hight and crowded in many spiral series imbilicated in the centre giving a reticulate appearance to the surface.
Leaves: Deciduous borne in wet season and falling in the dry season, lanceolate, erecto-patent, willow -like, narrow or large, in dens tufts on the stems apex, 7-15 cm long by about 2 cm, not succulent, light green, making it look like a palm tree or a pineapple.
Flowers: The cyathia are solitary and quite small (about 5-7 mm in diameter), yellowish-green becoming reddish, cupped by 2 ovate bracts 1 x 2 cm wide. Nectar gland oblong, 2-lipped, margin entire or finely crenulate. They develop at the crown of the plant. The peduncles is 1-5 cm long and fall away after drying.
Blooming season: Spring.
Fruit: Subsessile about 9 mm in diameter and obtusely lobed.
Seed: Ovoid up to 4 mm long, smooth.

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Euphorbia bupleurifolia Photo by: Gennaro Re

Euphorbia bupleurifolia Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli

 

Euphorbia bupleurifolia Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli

Euphorbia bupleurifolia Photo by: © Plantemania

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