Euphorbia Collection

Poisonous Plants
Water Hemlock (Cicuta Virosa); Conium Maculatum; Digitalis Purpurea; Cypress Spurge (Euphorbia Cyparissias); Pasque Flower (Anemone Pulsatilla); Autumn Crocus

Crown of thorns, Euphorbia milii var. splendens
Crown of thorns, Christ plant or Christ thorn, Euphorbia milii var. splendens (Spendid euphorbia, Euphorbia splendens)

Canary Islands - Euphorbia canariensis (Canary Island Spurge). Date: circa 1930s

Sun spurge, Euphorbia helioscopia. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1801

Cypress spurge, Euphorbia cyparissias. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1801

Fruits, nuts and seeds
Fruit, nuts and seeds including cannabis, fig, mulberry, beech, seagrape, rhubarb, buckwheat, laurel, nutmeg, mace, jabillo, castor oil, euphorbia, etc

Crown of thorns, Euphorbia milii (Euphorbia bojeri). Handcoloured lithograph by D. Blair after an illustration by Lena Lowis from her Familiar Indian Flowers with Coloured Plates, L

Poinsettia, Euphorbia pulcherrima (Poinsettia pulcherrima). Handcoloured lithograph by D. Blair after an illustration by Lena Lowis from her Familiar Indian Flowers with Coloured Plates, L

Chameleon spurge, Euphorbia dulcis, and tree spurge, Euphorbia dendroides. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Green spurge, Euphorbia esula, and petty spurge, Euphorbia peplus. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Tree spurge, Euphorbia dendroides, and broadleaf spurge, Euphorbia platyphyllos

Sun spurge, Euphorbia helioscopia, and cypress spurge, Euphorbia cyparissias. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Myrtle spurge, Euphorbia myrsinites, and sea spurge, Euphorbia paralias. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Caper spurge, Euphorbia lathyris, and wolfsmilk spurge, Euphorbia esula. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Milk barrel spurge, Euphorbia cereiformis (Euphorbia polygonata). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke from Conrad Loddiges Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, 1828

Medusas head, Euphorbia caput-medusae. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke from Conrad Loddiges Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, 1828

Spurge hawk-moth on cypress spurge
Spurge hawk-moth, Hyles euphorbiae, caterpillar and pupa on cypress spurge, Euphorbia cyparrisias. Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmanns Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1848

Euphorbia officinarum, Euphorbe. Handcoloured steel engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr

Upright warty spurge, Euphorbia stricta

Christmas star or poinsettia, Euphorbia pulcherrima (Showy poinsettia, Poinsettia pulcherrima)

Jamaican poinsettia or Crimson-flowered euphorbia, Euphorbia punicea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by Mills from Benjamin Maund and the Rev

Scarlet plume, Euphorbia fulgens (Jacquinia-flowered euphobia, Euphorbia jacquiniiflora Euphorbia jacquiniaeflora). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S

Broad-leaved spurge, Euphorbia epithymoides

Honey spurge, Euphorbia mellifera
Honey spurge or honey-bearing euphorbia, Euphorbia mellifera. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom Jr. after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis Botanical Magazine, T

Oleander hawk-moth and spurge hawk-moth
Oleander hawk-moth, Daphnis nerii 1, and caterpillar on oleander flower, Nerium oleander, and spurge hawk-moth, Hyles euphorbiae 2, and caterpillar on leafy spurge, Euphorbia esula

Caper spurge or paper spurge, Euphorbia lathyris. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr

Spurge, Euphorbia officinarum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr

Resin spurge, Euphorbia resinifera. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr

Curtis British Entomology Plate 589
Diptera: Peronecera fuscipennis = Hexatoma fuscipennis (Curtis) [Plant: Euphorbia helioscopia (Sun Spurge)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 322
Coleoptera: Cafius fucicola (Sea-shore Cafius) [Plant: Euphorbia portlandica (Portland Spurge)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 34
Diptera: *Milesia speciosa (cf. Caliprobola speciosa. Beautiful Milesia Hover-fly) [Plant: Euphorbia amygdaloides (Wood Spurge)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 3
Lepidoptera: Deilephila euphorbiae = Hyles (Celerio) euphorbiae (Spurge Hawk) [Plant: Euphorbia paralias (Sea Spurge)] Date: 1824-39

Euphorbia Candelabra near Morogoro, East Africa
Euphorbia Candelabra on the outskirts of Morogoro, East Africa (now in Tanzania). 1916

Illustration, Sphingidae -- Deilephila Euphorbiae, Deilephila Galii, Choerocampa Nerii, Pterogon Proserpina

Tanzania - Usambara - Candelabra Tree
An amazing Candelabra tree (Euphorbia ingens) in the Usambara Mountains, a range in North-East Tanzania, East Africa (formerly German East Africa)

Euphorbia glauca, sea spurge
Finished watercolour by Fred Polydore Nodder from an original outline drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

Euphorbia sp. spurge
Plate 509 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Euphorbia canariensis, Canary Island spurge
Illustration from Flora Exotica (1720) by Johann Gottfried Simula. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Euphorbia mammillaris, corn cob euphorbia
Illustration from Prludia Botanica (1703) by Caspar Commelin, of Type Specimens of plants named by Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)

Euphorbia splendens. Manuscript document: Sketches of plants made at the Mauritius to accompany the report of May 1829 Date: 1829

Euphorbia Wulfenii (Spurge, Milkweed)
Euphorbia Characias Wulfenii (Spurge, Milkweed), an evergreen perennial with yellow-green flowers, growing in a rockery setting

EUPHORBIA
(left) euphorbia cyparissias (right) e. pepius

Euphorbia Pulcherrima
Poinsettia, or Mexican Flame Leaf

Winter Flowers 1866
Cultivated & Wild: Hyacinthus (Hyacinths); Narcissus; Galanthus (Snowdrops); Polyanthus Primula; Euphorbia Pulcherrima (Poinsettia); Correa; Salvia

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