Species Euphorbia currorii
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There aren’t any identifications of Euphorbia currorii.
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Etymology of Euphorbia:
Gk. eu- = well; phorbe = pasture or fodder; probably after Euphorbus, Greek physician to Juba II, King of Mauretania. Juba was educated in Rome and married the daughter of Antony and Cleopatra. He was apparently interested in botany and had written about an African cactus-like plant from the slopes of Mount Atlas, which he had found or knew about, which was used as a powerful laxative. That plant may have been Euphorbia resinifera, and like all Euphorbias had a latexy exudate (milky emulsion from certain plants). Euphorbus had a brother named Antonius Musa who was the physician to Augustus Caesar in Rome. When Juba heard that Caesar had honoured his physician with a statue, he decided to honour his own physician by naming the plant he had written about after him.
Etymology of currorii:
For Andrew Beveridge Curror (1811–1843), Scottish surgeon, served in the royal navy on HMS Water-Witch, plant collector in Angola in 1839–1843. Records show that he travelled to the rarely visited island of Annobón in the Gulf of Guinea about 400km from Gabon where he collected two specimens sometime between 1839–1842. Little else is known about him.
Scientific name:
Euphorbia currorii N.E. Br.
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There aren’t any identifications of Euphorbia currorii.
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