- Euphorbia canariensis
Taxobox
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image_width = 250px
image_caption = Canary Island Spurge
regnum =Plant ae
divisio =Magnoliophyta
classis =Magnoliopsida
subclassis =Rosidae
familia =Euphorbiaceae
subfamilia =Euphorbioideae
tribus =Euphorbieae
subtribus =Euphorbiinae
genus = "Euphorbia "
species = "E. canariensis"
binomial = "Euphorbia canariensis"
binomial_authority = L.cite web
url = http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?16353
title = Taxon: "Euphorbia canariensis" L.
accessdate = 2008-03-22
author = Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN)
authorlink = Germplasm Resources Information Network
date = 1998-10-29
format = HTML
work = Taxonomy for Plants
publisher = USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland ]
synonyms ="Euphorbia canariensis" Forssk. "Euphorbia canariensis" Thunb. "Euphorbia canariensis" Tremautcite web
url = http://www.ipni.org/ipni/simplePlantNameSearch.do?find_wholeName=Euphorbia+canariensis&output_format=normal
title = whole name = "Euphorbia canariensis"
accessdate = 2008-03-22
author = International Plant Names Index
authorlink = International Plant Names Index
format = HTML] "Tithymalus quadrangularis" Kiggcite book
last = Wijnands
first = D. O.
title = The Botany of the Commelins: A Taxonomical, Nomenclatural, and Historical
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=eb_dEGP56-QC
format = HTML
accessdate = 2008-03-22
date = 1983
publisher =CRC Press
isbn = 9061912628
chapter = Euphorbiaceae
chapterurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=eb_dEGP56-QC&pg=PT110&lpg=PT110&source=web&ots=Ivi7E5xWYf&sig=x-oy4gl6MdQUb_04iF_zSmxCglI&hl=en#PPT111,M1]
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range_map_caption ="Euphorbia canariensis", commonly known as the Canary Island Spurge or as Hercules Club to horticulturalistscite web
url = http://www.callutheran.edu/gf/plants/category/gar-4744.htm
title = Photographs of succulents Euphorbia canariensis 4744
accessdate = 2008-03-23
author = Barbara J. Collins, Ph.D.
authorlink = California Lutheran University
date = 2007-08-09
format = HTML
work = Photographs of succulents
publisher = California Lutheran University] is asucculent member of the familyEuphorbiaceae andgenus "Euphorbia " that grows natively in thearid andhumid environment of the lowest areas in theCanary Islands which it is also endemic to.cite web
url = http://www.canaryislandflora.com/arid.htm
title = Canary Islands Flora - Arid Habitat
accessdate = 2008-03-02
format = HTML]Description
Canary Island Spurge is a small tree, growing to convert|3|m|ft to convert|4|m|ft high. Fleshy quadrangular or pentagonal trunks that are like a cactus. The leaves grow in clusters of three or four and have 'turned into spines' convert|5|mm|in to convert|14|mm|in long. Reddish-green flowers. Hardy to convert|-2|°C|°F|sigfig=2|lk=on.cite web
url = http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/tj.de.graaf/euphorbia engels.htm
title = Euphorbia
accessdate = 2008-03-23
author = Thijs de Graaf
format = HTML
work = euphorbia engels]The latex which contains
diterpenes cite journal
last =Marco, J.A. : Sanz Cervera, J.F. : Yuste, A.
title = Ingenane and lathyrane diterpenes from the latex of Euphorbia canariensis.
journal =Phytochemistry-Oxford
volume =45
issue =3
pages =563–570
publisher = Elsevier Science Ltd.
url = http://grande.nal.usda.gov/ibids/index.php?mode2=detail&origin=ibids_references&therow=428571
accessdate = 2008-03-23
date = 1997 June
doi = 10.1016/S0031-9422(97)00018-6] is considered highly toxic.cite web
url = http://florawww.eeb.uconn.edu/199200318.html
title = "Euphorbia canariensis" L.
accessdate = 2008-03-23
author = University of Connecticut
date = 18 March 2008
format = HTML
work = EEB Greenhouse Accession Data
publisher = [http://florawww.eeb.uconn.edu/ Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Greenhouses] ]Distribution
Found on the narrow coastal belt, from sea level to convert|0|m|ft to convert|1100|m|ft in the Canary Islands.
ubspecies which are synonyms
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