Candelabrum Euphorbia ( lat.Euphorbia candelabrum ) - one of the types of milkweed .
| Euphorbia candelabrum |
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| Subtribe : | Euphorbiinae Griseb. , 1859 |
| View: | Euphorbia candelabrum |
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| International scientific name |
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Euphorbia candelabrum Kotschy , 1857 |
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Euphorbia candelabrum - endemic to the Horn of Africa . Grows in Somalia and eastern Ethiopia , east of the African Rift .
Euphorbia candelabrum - a succulent plant, reaches 10 m in the wild. Its branches resemble a candelabrum .
In traditional Ethiopian medicine , plant juice was used as a laxative. Euphorbia was mixed with other medicinal plants as an ointment to treat leprosy . [2]
There are two subspecies :
- Euphorbia candelabrum var. bilocularis
- Euphorbia candelabrum var. candelabrum
- β For the conventionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Dicotyledonous article .
- β Richard Pankhurst, An Introduction to the Medical History of Ethiopia (Trenton: Red Sea Press, 1990), pp. 76, 91