Euphorbia pulcherrima Willd. ex Klotzsch

 
  • Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
    (Spurge Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : EUPHORBIACEAE
  • Synonym(s) : Poinsettia pulcherrima (Willd. ex Klotzsch) Graham
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Euphorbia pulcherrima Willd. ex Klotzsch
  • Common name : Christmas flower, Poinsettia
  • Habit : Undershrub
  • Habitat : Grown in gardens
  • Comments / notes : Occasionally cultivated in gardens and sometimes seen on hills across ghats.
  • Flower, Fruit : August-February
  • Native : Central America
  • World Distribution : Cultivated in tropics and subtropics
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Euphorbia pulcherrima. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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