Word: euphorbia
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...casual observer, the rolling prairie is a blur of burning gold, but for someone walking, riding horseback, or biking through the Texas ranchland, as President George W. Bush does, there are meadows of yellow sunflowers, swaths of tall bright white euphorbia, and along the woody creekbeds purple violets. Though the land around Prairie Chapel Road is a commercial-free zone, it has become a pasture of political messages in recent days when a crop of red, white and blue pro-Bush placards have sprouted on fencelines and in the front yards of the president's rural neighbors...
Grown best in the shade at 2,000 feet, ixbut (Euphorbia lancifolia) is a plant which exudes milky sap. It has dark green leaves marked with a white "V." The strength and dosage of ixbut are remarkably uniform: take five leaves or five sections of stem (about five grams) to brew a cup of tea; drink six cups...
...rigid Moslem faith. It is a community of ruinous houses girdled by a ruinous wall, but it has its two-story hotels with shower baths and roaches, and is proud of its hideous castellated palace. There are grubby plots of decaying vegetation and gardens with flowering fences of euphorbia and brilliantly colored birds. Its tedj houses, half saloon, half brothel, are marked over the doorway with a traditional red cross - which caused some mis understanding when a Red Cross medical unit made its first appearance in town...
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