Wood spurge
Euphorbia amygdaloides
Family · Euphorbiaceae · Poisonous
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This plant, or one that resembles it, is dangerous. Identifying is not authorising: no app has the authority to tell you that you may eat or touch a plant.
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The shade spurge, with rosettes of dark leaves atop reddish stems and yellow-green inflorescences that light up an oak wood floor in April. It has the same latex and the same warning as its sun-loving cousins.
Oak woods · Uplands · Streams and ditches
Also known asalmond-leaved spurge
How to tell it
Last year's stems carrying a rosette of dark, elongated, slightly hairy leaves at the top. Yellow-green cup inflorescences, with crescent glands whose two horns almost meet into a ring. White latex from any cut.
What it is confused with
No dangerous lookalikes known in the Iberian Peninsula.
What it is for
None. The whole family's rule applies: white latex, hands away from the face, and none of it goes in the mouth. Ecologically it is a plant of mature woodland and cool shade.