Family: Euphorbiaceae
Synonym: Diasperus myrtifolius (Wight) Kuntze, Macraea myrtifolia Wight
Habit:
Shrub
Habitat:
Grown as a hedge plant in gardens
Flowering
& Fruiting: May-August.
Distribution:
Sri Lanka, China Southeast, Hainan, India, Taiwan, Thailand
Key identification features: Mousetail
plant is a small shrub with tiny inverted-lance shaped leaves and small,
slender, pendulous red flowers which probably inspired the name Mousetail
Plant. Flowers are typically longer than the leaves and hang down by slender,
red filament-like stalks, ending in a roundish bowl-like flower. Fruits are
capsules
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