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How to identify Euphorbia neriifolia? These methods are simple and practical

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Stem: cylindrical, with many branches on the upper part. Leaves: alternate, fleshy, growing on the ridges at the tips of young branches, obovate or obovate-oblong to spatulate, with a small mucro at the apex, petiole short, stipules spine-like. Flowers: dichasial and axillary, involucre broadly campanulate.

I. Stem

The stem of Euphorbia neriifolia is cylindrical, with many branches on the upper part, and has 5 somewhat inconspicuous ridges; the ridges are arranged in a spiral, the color is green, and the pith is nearly pentagonal.

II. Leaves

The leaves of Euphorbia neriifolia are alternate, fleshy, usually in five rows growing on the ridges at the very tips of young branches, obovate or obovate-oblong to spatulate, about 4.5-12 cm long and about 1.3-30.8 cm wide, with a small mucro at the apex, obtuse-rounded, gradually narrowed at the base, entire, petiole short, veins rather inconspicuous, stipules spine-like.

III. Flowers

The inflorescence of Euphorbia neriifolia is dichasial and axillary, stalked at the base, with 2 bracts; the involucre is broadly campanulate, the lobes semicircular, with ciliate margins, curved inward. Staminate flowers numerous, bracts filiform, pistillate flower one.

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