The potentially toxic weed caper spurge is spreading around South Taranaki's Waiinu Beach settlement - to the consternation of a resident trying to control it. Graham Ellett first noticed a few of ...

Spurge is an invasive weed that's not picky about where it makes its home. While there are more than 2,000 varieties of this ...

Caper spurge has a lot of milky latex sap. Wanganui Chronicle photograph by Bevan Conley. Contact with a weed plant has severely irritated two rural Whanganui people and sent another to the ...

Sap from the common garden weed petty spurge appears to treat non-melanoma skin cancers, experts are reporting in the British Journal of Dermatology. But they tell patients not to "try it at home ...

Hopefully it is not some invasive weed. DD, Co Dublin A: Your mystery plant is a member of the euphorbia genus known as the caper spurge, the mole plant, or more properly as Euphorbia lathyris.

March’s Weed of the Month, leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula) is an invader of pastures, forage, grasslands, and ditches. It is native to Eurasia and has become widespread throughout the United States.