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    (c) dirlid, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Andriambolantsoa Rasolohery, all rights reserved

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    (c) Henry Zulù, all rights reserved

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    (c) Letícia Dias Martins, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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    (c) Albert Kang, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Sugianto Tjandra, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Crown-of-Thorns

Euphorbia milii

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Euphorbia milii, the crown of thorns, Christ plant, or Christ thorn, called Corona de Cristo in Latin America (coroa-de-cristo in Brazil), is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family Euphorbiaciae, native to Madagascar. The species name commemorates Baron Milius, once Governor of Réunion, who introduced the species to France in 1821. It is suspected that the species was introduced to the Middle East in ancient times, and legend associates it with the crown of

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