Species Euphorbia media
Pictures from Observations
There aren’t any identifications of Euphorbia media.
Range:
Location unknown
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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 media:
From the Latin media = the 'middle', generally having characteristics that are intermediate between comparable species.
Scientific name:
Euphorbia media N.E. Br.
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Protologue:
Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr 6: 556 (1911)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1911
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Euphorbia media.