African milk bush
Synadenium grantii
Scientific Name
Synadenium grantii Hook. f.
Common Names
African milk bush, African milkbush
Family
Euphorbiaceae
Origin
Native to tropical eastern Africa (i.e. Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda and eastern Zaire).
Naturalised Distribution
Locally naturalised in south-eastern Queensland.
Notes
African milk bush (Synadenium grantii) is a minor environmental weed in Queensland. This species has escaped cultivation as a garden ornamental and become naturalised in urban bushland and riparian vegetation in south-eastern Queensland.
It is also regarded as an undesirable plant by some local authorities in this region (e.g. in Gold Coast City and Caboolture Shire) because of its poisonous milky sap.
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