EUPHORBIACEAE

Euphorbia roemeriana

Common Name: Roemer's Spurge, Roemer's Euphorbia

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habit inflorescence - flower in the middle with yellow anthers visible and cyathium below.  Do you see the new flowers emerging to the left and right?
inflorescences closeup--note the pairs of leaflike bracts underneath each inflorescence; the green growths on either side of the flower are new flowers emerging flower with a different view of the cyathium
close-up view of an individual flower with bracts pulled down; the yellow structure subtending the stamens contains an involucre of glands with erect horns at each end another close-up view of an individual flower showing the subtending involucral glands
 
leaves