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Mercurialis annua, annual mercury, is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae. It is native to the Middle East and the Mediterranean region, where it occurs on bare, sandy soils in semi-arid regions. Its seeds are dispersed by harvester ants, which remove an oily coating that delays germination.
Mar 4, 2011 · The family is a good starting point for the search for plant-based medicines because of its wide variety of chemicals that may probably be responsible for the family’s medicinal nature. Euphorbiaceae is among the large flowering plant families consisting of a wide variety of vegetative forms some of which are plants of great importance. Its classification and chemistry have of late been ...
Manihot dulcis (J.F.Gmel.) Baill. Manihot flexuosa Pax & K.Hoffm. Manihot esculenta, commonly called cassava ( / kəˈsɑːvə / ), manioc, [2] yuca, or tapioca (among numerous regional names) is a woody shrub of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, native to South America, from Brazil, Paraguay and parts of the Andes.
Oct 6, 2022 · Phytochemical profile of Euphorbia latex. Phytochemical investigations on different species of euphorbia have shown the presence of diversity of constituents, mainly terpenoids, enzymes and Natural Rubber. Table 1 shows the major terpenoids and Figures 1 – 6 showed the chemical structures of terpenoids isolated from different Euphorbia species.
ADVERTISEMENTS: The below mentioned article provides an overview on Euphorbiales; Family—Euphorbiaceae. After reading this article you will learn about: 1. Introduction to Euphorbiales 2. Family—Euphorbiaceae 3. Economic Importance of the Family – Euphorbiaceae. Introduction to Euphorbiales: According to Hutchinson this is the thirty fifth order of the phylum Angiospermae, sub phylum ...
Flowering Spurge. Spurge family (Euphorbiaceae) Description: This herbaceous perennial plant is ½–3' tall, producing one or more stems that are unbranched, except at their apices, where the inflorescences occur. Each stem is light green, terete, glabrous, and sometimes glaucous (rarely it is pubescent). Alternate leaves occur along the ...
Family Euphorbiaceae as traditionally delimited (Euphorbiaceae s.l., Webster 1994) is one of the largest families of flowering plants, composed of over 300 genera and 8,000 species. According to the latter author, the family is very diverse in range, composed of all sorts of plants ranging from large woody trees through climbing
