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infestation (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

habit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

habit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of older stem (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of younger stem (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of leaf with prominent darker green veins (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

underside of young leaf (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

cluster of flowers and immature fruit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

close-up of immature fruit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

young plant (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

Synadenium grantii

Scientific Name

Synadenium grantii Hook. f.

Family

Euphorbiaceae

Common Names

African milk bush, African milkbush

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.