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Many-branched Spurge
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Many-branched Spurge

Euphorbia paniculata

Euphorbia paniculata is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae, native to the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa in the western Mediterranean Basin.

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Description

Euphorbia paniculata is a perennial plant up to 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) tall. It has a woody, thickened stock with erect stems, woody at the base with up to 11 fertile lateral branches. Leaves are green, 25–100 by 10–25 millimetres (0.98 in–3.94 in × 0.39 in–0.98 in), elliptical to lanceolate, sessile, generally amplexicaul with serrulate or entire margins. It has non-appendiculate yellow nectaries and ellipsoidal, black seeds.

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Range & habitat

Euphorbia paniculata is native to the southwestern Iberian Peninsula, northern Morocco and the northern coastline of Algeria and Tunisia. It inhabits forests and humid shrubland, in troughs and next to temporary waterways.

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