wood spurge

Definitions

An erect, perennial spurge, native to Europe and the Caucasus, of species Euphorbia amygdaloides.

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Examples

“The English wood Spurge, hath diverse tough woody brownish red branches, two foote high or more, bare or naked of leaves, for a space next to the roote, and afterwards set⟳ up to the toppes, with many narrow and long leaves, yet broader than those of the Sea Spurge, and nothing so large as the next, somewhat smooth in handling, and without any dentes about the edges, turning reddish in the spring⟳, and more in the sommer time: […]”

“The Wood Spurge, seen so frequently during our country rambles, suggests by its spreading aspect a clever juggler balancing on his upturned chin a widely-branched series of delicate green saucers on fragile stems, which ramify below from a single rod.”

“We filmed our wild wood spurge, Euphorbia amygdaloides, on a big grassy verge alongside the road by the River Mole.”

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