How to Use euphorbia in a Sentence

euphorbia

noun
  • Plants with medium-sized leaves like irises, euphorbia, and azaleas add medium texture.
    Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Combine these free-flowering, compact cascaders with bold uprights like canna lilies or coleus and textural fillers like euphorbia and lantana to keep your display balanced and brimming.
    Gemma Johnstone, The Spruce, 14 May 2026
  • Purple and Green Coleus Coleus, wire vine, euphorbia, lysimachia, and petunias combine to create a gorgeous color palette.
    Steve Bender, Southern Living, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Its modern-rustic buildings of wood and baked earth overlooked an extraordinary botanical garden bursting with desert plants from around the world—cacti, agaves, kalanchoes, aloes, euphorbias.
    Saki Knafo, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Complement pink Lenten roses with yellow Acorus, lime green euphorbias, purple violas, and variegated ivy.
    Steve Bender, Southern Living, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The landscape views are breathtaking since the terrain is so hilly and rocky (as opposed to the flat terrain of the savannah) and covered in Lebombo euphorbia, a cactus-like tree with a single trunk and an entire canopy of prickly, upright branches.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 June 2026

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