The wolf milk plants (Euphorbiaceae) educate a plant family with approximately 270 kinds and 6000 kinds.

Description

The plants have getrenntgeschlechtige blooms, it are in or (dizisch). The plants can be bald or behaart. They contain sometimes milchigen Latex or colored juice. The branch axles and branches are soft and krautig or holzig or sometimes sukkulent. They are unbewehrt or sometimes thorny. The are usually change-constantly, sometimes against-constantly, rarely wirtelig, usually gestielt, sometimes shieldlike, simply or compound up, ganzrandig, gelappt or Nebenbl¤tter are frequently remarkably, sometimes thornily, or completely reduced.

The bloom conditions can be END or shoulder-constantly, rispig, traubig, or with extremely reduced blooms in involukralen illusory blooms (Cyathien). The eingeschlechtigen blooms are usually aktinomorph and small. The cup (Calyx) consists of 3 to 6 (Septalen) or Zipfeln, sometimes being missing. The bloom crown consists of 3 to 6 (Petalen), sometimes being missing. are often present. There are per male bloom (to) three to 100 (until 1000). The Antheren tears usually lengthwise up, Pistillodium often available. The Fruchtknoten is upper-constantly, it can sitting or rarely gestielt be, (in to) three (to 20) also to two Samenanlagen per subject. Stylus usually 3, Staminodien sometimes available. As fruits usually breaking, dreilappige caps are formed, occasionally stone fruit-like with fleshy Exocarp and holzigem Endocarp. The seeds are with or without Caruncula.

Wolf milk plants are extremely multiform:

• Krautige plants:
  • One year's plants
  • Two-year plants
  • plants of several years.
• Felling trees plants:
  • Half bushes
  • Bushes and
  • Trees.

Contents materials

The milk (Latex), existing with some kinds, is often toxic and serves as Wundverschluss and eating protection. Under the contents materials the strike-attractive Di and Triterpenester are worth mentioning.

The seeds and the milk contain poisonous Euphorbon. These have a strong local irritation on the skin and the mucous membranes with Eye injuries are particularly dangerous.

Name origin

Latin name of the plant family "Euphorbia" Juba II of Mauritania from Euphorbos, a body physician of the king (about 50 v.Chr to 23/24 n.Chr.) leads itself ago.

Important kinds with some selected kinds

• Wolf milk (Euphorbia)
  • Weihnachtsstern (E. pulcherrima) (old name: Poinsettia),
  • Christ thorn (E. milii),
  • many sukkulente kinds,
  • many kinds domestic in Central Europe.
• Hevea
  • India rubber tree (H. brasiliensis)
• Being gel herbs (Mercurialis)
• Jatropha
  • PUR-greed nut
  • Pagodenpflanze (Jatropha podagrica)
• Rizinus (Ricinus)
  • Miracle tree (R. COMM universities)
• Manihot important food in the Tropics: Maniok or also Yuka mentioned.

Frequent representatives of the wolf milk plants in Central Europe belong to the kind Euphorbia, for example: the Zypressen Wolfsmilch (E. cyparissias) and the sun turning wolf milk (E. helioscopia).

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