Catalina

لبينة، أم لبن الكبير

• COMMON NAME:Catalina, Desert Poinsettia, Fire on the Mountain, Fire-On-The-Mountain, Mexican Fire Plant, Painted Leaf.

• ARABIC:لبينة، أم لبن الكبير

• BOTANICAL NAME:Euphorbia heterophylla L.

• SYNONYMS:Euphorbia geniculata

• FAMILY:EUPHORBIACEAE

• KIND:Introduced

• EMIRATE:Fujairah

• GROWTH FORMS:Herbs

• HABITATS:Terrace (Silt)Sandy

• TYPES:Annual

• REMARKS:leaves fall off quickly leaving bear with fruit capsules. This is the wild variety of the garden plant Poinsettia.

DESCRIPTION:

Annual, stems branched, erect, up to 60 cm. Leaves elliptic, pointed tip, finely toothed, 2-5*4-10 cm. Milky sap exuded when stems are broken. Inflorescence densely clustered in leaf nodes or terminal, yellow and red. Bracts leaf-like, tinged red at base. Fruit a 3-lobed capsule, drooping on stalk up to 0.5 cm. Seeds conical. Flowering from January to April.

REFERENCES:

M.V.D jongbloed, G.R. Fuelner, B. Boer, A.R. Western. the comprehensive guide to the wild flowers of the United Arab Emirates. Environmental research and wildlife Development agency, Abu Dhabi, 2003. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30062970-2/images https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/euphorbia-heterophylla-var-cyathophora/