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| name = ''Euphorbia tirucalli''<br />
| status = LC<br />
| status_system = iucn3.1<br />
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn">{{IUCN2006|assessors=Haevermans|year=2004|id=44452|title=Euphorbia tirucalli|downloaded=11 May 2006}} Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern </ref><br />
| trend = stable<br />
| image = Euphorbia tirucalli1 ies.jpg<br />
| regnum = [[Plantae]]<br />
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]<br />
| classis = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]<br />
| ordo = [[Malpighiales]]<br />
| familia = [[Euphorbiaceae]]<br />
| genus = ''[[Euphorbia]]''<br />
| species = '''''E. tirucalli'''''<br />
| binomial = ''Euphorbia tirucalli''<br />
| binomial_authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|L.]]{{Verify source|date=November 2007}}<!-- 1753 --><br />
}}<br />
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'''[[Euphorbia]] tirucalli''' ('''Indian Tree Spurge''', '''pencil tree''' or '''milk bush''') is a [[shrub]] that grows in semi-[[arid]] [[tropical]] [[climate]]s. Milk bush produces a poisonous [[latex]] which can, with little effort, be converted to the equivalent of [[gasoline]]. This led [[chemist]] [[Melvin Calvin]] to propose the exploitation of milk bush for producing oil. This usage is particularly appealing because of the ability of milk bush to grow on land that is not suitable for most other crops. Calvin estimated that 10 to 50 barrels of [[oil]] per acre was achievable.<br />
'''Hankie'''<br />
Milk bush also has uses in [[Complementary and alternative medicine|traditional medicine]] in many cultures. It has been used to treat cancers, excrescences, tumors, and warts in such diverse places as Brazil, India, Indonesia, Malabar and Malaysia. It has also been used as an application for asthma, cough, earache, neuralgia, rheumatism, toothache, and warts in India. <ref>''[http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Euphorbia_tirucalli.html Euphorbia tirucalli L.]'' in '''Handbook of Energy Crops''', James Duke</ref>. There is some interest in milk bush as a [[cancer]] treatment.<br />
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In the 1980s the [[Brazil]]ian national [[petroleum]] company - [[Petrobras]] - began experiments based on the ideas that Calvin put forth.<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[List of vegetable oils]]<br />
* [[Biodiesel]]<br />
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