Tiger's Milk Spruce
Sapium insigne
- Habit
- Tree
- Found in India
- Uttarakhand
- Flowering
- December-May
How to identify Tiger's Milk Spruce
Identify Tiger's Milk Spruce by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a tree habit.
- Confirm leaf margin: Toothed (serrate/dentate edge).
- Confirm leaf surface: Glabrous (smooth, hairless).
- Confirm flower colour: Green.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: December-May.
- In India, compare location records such as Uttarakhand.
- Confirm it sits within the Euphorbiaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Tiger's Milk Spruce.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Sapium insigne
- Genus
- Sapium
- Family
- Euphorbiaceae
- Habit
- Tree
- Habitat
- Evergreen forests
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Distribution
- India, Himalayas, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Indo-China, Malay Peninsula
- Found in India
- Uttarakhand
- Flowering & fruiting
- December-May
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf margin
- Toothed (serrate/dentate edge)recorded
- Leaf surface
- Glabrous (smooth, hairless)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Tiger's Milk Spruce itself; the rest are typical of the Euphorbiaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- GreenrecordedGreen or greenish
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Capsule
Characters marked “recorded” are for Tiger's Milk Spruce itself; the rest are typical of the Euphorbiaceae family — flowering plants only.
About Tiger's Milk Spruce
A member of the Euphorbiaceae family, Tiger's Milk Spruce (Sapium insigne) is a tree. In India it has been recorded in Uttarakhand. It grows in evergreen forests. Flowering and fruiting run from December to May.
Euphorbiaceae
Spurge/Euphorbia family
Tiger's Milk Spruce belongs to the Euphorbiaceae family.
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