Sun Spurge

Description

Euphorbia radians Benth. , Is a species of phanerogama belonging to the family of euphorbiaceous.It is a perennial herbaceous plant , erect at least at the tips of the branches. Reaches a size of 3 to 25 cm high. The stem is simple or branched from the base, sometimes with hairs resting on the surface. The leaves are alternate, sessile or on a short petiole , variably, usually with hairs lying on its surface. Leaves are hardly present when inflorescences appear . In these the flowers are grouped in the tip of the stems and surrounded by bracts white to reddish that vary in size. The flowers of these plants are very modified, the structure that looks like a flower , that is to say the one that takes the ovary and the stamens , is in fact an inflorescence called ciatio , that inside it carries numerous masculine flowers (represented exclusively by naked stamens ) And a female flower (represented by an ovary with 3 styles whose tips split into 2 branches, ovary on a long column); These ciatios of up to 4 mm in length are globose, with teeth in the superior border, between which they appear the stamens and the ovary, slightly below the teeth they are of 1 to 6 large cup-shaped glands. The fruit is a trilobada capsule, without hairs, which hangs from the ciatio, when it ripens it separates in 3 parts and each one opens to let out its only seed , these ascent, ovoid, beaked at the apex, with the surface covered with protuberances And irregularly arranged depressions. The root is tuberous, sometimes very thick, usually much longer than the aerial part of the plant. 2 Sometimes very thick, generally quite longer than the aerial part of the plant. 2 Sometimes very thick, generally quite longer than the aerial part of the plant.