About African milk bush
Euphorbia umbellata (syn.) Synadenium grantii), also called African milk bush, is a species of succulent plant in the family Euphorbiaceae, which is native to eastern Africa.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Synadenium grantii
- Genus
- Synadenium
- Family
- EUPHORBIACEAE
- Habit
- Shrub
- Habitat
- Grown as live fence
- Native to
- Tropical Africa
- Distribution
- Introduced elsewhere
- Flowering & fruiting
- September-April

Botanical family
Euphorbiaceae
Spurge/Euphorbia family
African milk bush belongs to the Euphorbiaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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