page_title: Euphorbia tuberosa
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Euphorbia tuberosa / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: the spurge species Euphorbia tuberosa, photographed at Hangklip, near Pringle Bay, Western Cape, Zuid-Afrika
context_page_description: Euphorbia tuberosa is a variable geophytic plant of the family Euphorbiaceae, indigenous to the western parts of South Africa.
context_section_description: A highly variable species, that has a tuberous underground caudex. 
  Its deciduous leaves are grey-green, often with soft, fine hair. 
  The leaf shape is lanceolate-to-oblong. Below the leaves' stalks they become narrower. 
  The leaf margins are wavy or crisped, and usually curved upwards. 
  It is dioecious and its yellow-green 5mm flowers (cyathia) appear over the Winter, on short (1-5cm), trailing peduncles.
caption: Detail of Euphorbia tuberosa flower, from near Hangklip.
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