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Family: Euphorbiaceae	Genus: Euphorbia	Species: Euphorbia pulcherrima Willd. ex Klotzsch( लालपत्ती )

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Pleuradena coccinea Raf., Euphorbia erythrophylla Bertol., Poinsettia pulcherrima (Willd. ex Klotzsch) Graham	Flower Color	Yellow - Orange
Common Name	Lalpatti	Flower Type	Cyme
English / Trade Name	Poinsettia	Flowering Period	Jan-March
Vernacular /Local Name	Lalpatti	Fruiting Period	Jan-March
Altitude	1100-1200 m	Fruit Type	Capsule
Habit	Shrub	Fruit Details	Fruit ,3-lobed-globose, 1.5-2 × ca. 1.5 cm, smooth and glabrous. Seeds ovoid, ca. 10 × 8-9 mm, gray or light gray, subsmooth, without caruncle
Habitat	Deciduous tropical forest, hot seasonally dry forest; moist or wet, wooded ravines	Bark Type	Smooth
Distribution	Central America from Mexico to Costa Rica. Now widely cultivated in the tropics and subtropics	Bark Details	Bark is smooth and green
Distribution in Haryana	Ambala, Fatehabad, Gurgaon, Morni-Pinjore, Rohtak, Yamuna Nagar	Origin	Exotic
		Leaf Type	Simple
		Leaf Arrangement	Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Ovate
Description of Species	Shrubs to small trees, upto 4 m, many branched. Stems glabrous. Leaves alternate. Stipules minute, membranous, caduceus. Petiole 2-5 cm, glabrous. Leaf blade ovate-elliptic, oblong, or lanceolate, 6-25 × 4-10 cm. Apex acuminate or acute. Cyathia in a very congested, 1-sided synflorescence, subtended by 5-7 petiolate leaflike bracts, these narrowly elliptic, 3-7 × 1-2 cm. Male flowers many, usually exserted from involucres, bracts linear, pilose. Female flower Ovary glabrous, pedicellate. Styles connate below middle. Stigma deeply 2-lobed. Capsule, 3-lobed-globose, 1.5-2 × ca. 1.5 cm, smooth and glabrous. Seeds ovoid, ca. 10 × 8-9 mm, gray or light gray, sub smooth, without caruncle	Leaf Details	Simple alternate leaves. They are ovate-elliptic to wedge-shaped , 7 to 20 cm long and 3 to 10 cm wide. Petioles are between 2,5 and 5 cm long

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