Euphorbia peplus. Kaikaiatua. Milkweed.
Māori names
kaikaiatua (Adams 1945). See also names recorded for E. glauca, the native species of milkweed.
Common names
Medicinal
Kerosene tin of weed boiled and water used as a bath for skin troubles (Adams 1945).
Related pharmacology and chemistry in Brooker, Cambie and Cooper 1987.
See Riley 1994 for information on medicinal uses of related plants elsewhere in the world.
Toxins
Many allied plants are poisonous (Aston 1923b)
Metadata
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28 May 2007
1 June 2020