Thanks Dinesh ji. E. heterophylla was earlier popularly known as E. geniculata. Tamil Name: Paal perukki (meaning a galactagogue).
Regards Vijayasankar Raman National Center for Natural Products Research University of Mississippi On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: > Many thanks Vijayasankar ji ... *heterophylla* answers many doubts > regarding what is seen in Google images. > > > Many thanks for making me realize the confusing relation between * > heterophylla* and *cyathophora* > > *Euphorbia heterophylla* auct. N. Amer. synonym of *Euphorbia > cyathophora*Murray ... syn. > *Poinsettia cyathophora* (Murray) Klotzsch & Garcke > http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?429414 > * > Euphorbia heterophylla* L. ... syn. *Poinsettia heterophylla* (L.) > Klotzsch & Garcke > http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?16374 > > > Regards. > Dinresh > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Vijayasankar <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Dinesh ji, >> >> May be that is why it has been named as 'heterophylla', I think. >> I understand that the leaves here are variable in shape and size. But I >> used to get confused with the specific epithet 'heterophylla' to a different >> plant, E.cyathophora, which has two-colored leaf-like bracts. >> Their nomenclature is still confusing! >> >> >> Regards >> >> Vijayasankar Raman >> National Center for Natural Products Research >> University of Mississippi >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Vijayasankar ji ... on taking a look at Google images, the mature plants >>> seem to have very broad and wavy-margined (that is, in the plane of leaf >>> surface). >>> Regards. >>> Dinesh >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Thank you very much for the ID, Vijayasankar ji. >>>> Regards. >>>> Dinesh >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Vijayasankar <[email protected] >>>> > wrote: >>>> >>>>> *Euphorbia heterophylla*. >>>>> http://www.fobi.web.id/fbi/key/Semarang?g2_itemId=33762 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Regards >>>>> >>>>> Vijayasankar Raman >>>>> National Center for Natural Products Research >>>>> University of Mississippi >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Dinesh Valke >>>>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Dear friends, >>>>>> ID please >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Herb growing (about 1 ft tall) among garden plants. >>>>>> The linear lanceolate leaves about: 4 - 6 in long X 1 in wide. >>>>>> >>>>>> Not sure if this plant too is grown as an ornamental. >>>>>> >>>>>> Must be some species of *Euphorbia*. >>>>>> >>>>>> Date/Time : April 16, 2011 at 5.44pm IST >>>>>> Location Place : at Vangani ... 19.107508, 73.312602 on Google >>>>>> maps<http://goo.gl/maps/gCoJ> >>>>>> Altitude : 125 ft (above mean sea level) >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards. >>>>>> Dinesh >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >
