Anyone who has taken a long road trip or bike ride has used a product of the spurge plant family—rubber. The spurge family, or Euphorbiaceae, includes economically valuable plants like the rubber tree ...

One of the most familiar plants in garrigue countryside are the spurges. We have several spurge species in Malta, the largest of which is the tree spurge, hence its name. The tree spurge (M: tenghud ...

Spurge is typically found in Cork and Kerry and in Northern Spain and Portugal — apparently this plant's poisonous sap was once a way of catching fish... Irish Spurge (Euphorbia hyberna) is one of the ...

Newly identified plant fossils found in Argentina suggest that a group of spurges long thought to have Asian origins may have first appeared in Gondwanan South America. Anyone who has taken a long ...