Euphorbia epithymoides

Multi-colored spurge ( Euphorbia epithymoides )

The Variegated spurge or colored spurge (Euphorbia epithymoides ) is a poisonous plant of the genus Euphorbia (Euphorbia ) in the family of Euphorbiaceae ( Euphorbiaceae ).

Features

The Variegated spurge is a short lived perennial herbaceous plant with pleiokormem rhizome, reaching stature heights of 30 to 50 centimeters. The leaves are rounded at the front. The Hüllbecherdrüsen are yellow.

The bracts are bright yellow and orange later. Are formed with filiform, above red warts capsule fruits.

The flowering period extends from May to June.

Occurrence

The natural range extends over the medium to South-Eastern Europe, Turkey and Libya. Here is the kind kalkholde line dry forest and shrub - in to find.

In Austria, the species is scattered to rare, especially in the Pannonian area. The deposits extend to the provinces of Vienna, Lower Austria, Burgenland, Tyrol, Carinthia ( uncertain) and Styria (where only unstable ). Extinct in Upper Austria, the type of Austria is considered endangered and endangered in the northern foothills of the Alps as strong.

System

This species has been described epithymoides under the currently valid taxon Euphorbia by Carolus Linnaeus in 1762. The 1875 published description by Anton Kerner von Marilaun under the taxon Euphorbia polychroma is a synonym.

Use

The Variegated spurge is occasionally used as an ornamental plant in perennial beds. She is since 1805 in culture, there are numerous varieties.

Ingredients

The plant contains carboxylic acid ester of Ingenols, for example, ingenol -3- Angelat, about the decadienoic and Decatriensäure.