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Euphorbia punicea

Sw. (1788)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Malpighiales Family: Euphorbiaceae Genus: Euphorbia

Jamaican poinsettia

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Natural History

Statewide Status

Only found in cultivation

Island Status

Kaua'i Only found in cultivation
O'ahu Only found in cultivation

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Bibliography

Name Published In: Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ.: 76 (1788)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Euphorbia punicea Frankie's Nursery Preserved_Specimen Shrub, ~2.5 meters tall. Bracts showy, bright pinkish-red. Flowers yellow with large cyathea. White sap. OED Oahu BISH 2007-03-23
2 Euphorbia punicea Lihue. German Hill. Lihue Lutheran Church. On either side of entrance to chapel. Cultivated. Preserved_Specimen Small tree up to 7 ft tall wit single trunk; sap copious, white: leaves dk matte green, glaucous above w/ pale green base, and pink tinged midrib, below dull pale green, glaucous; bracts deep dull cardinal, cyatheal bracts 4-6, yellow, aging to orange-yellow; stigma red, 3 lobed, fruit eventually pendant, 3 lobed, wit Flynn, T.W. 8727 Kauai BISH 2017-04-07
3 Euphorbia punicea Kawaihau District. Moloaa Chocolate and Coffee Farm, located south of Moloaa Beach. Cultivated plant in partial shade. Growing beneath Enterolobium cyclocarpum Preserved_Specimen Shrub, approximately 1.5 m tall; unbranched until midway up the trunk, giving a distinct umbrella-shaped canopy; leaves dark green; two types of showy bracts present; bracts immediately below cyathia coral colored and ovate, but sometimes also lower bracts that are red, lanceolate with green tips; cyathium glands bri Brock, K. 885 Kauai BISH 2016-08-22
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