Euphorbus (physician)

Euphorbus was the Greek physician of Juba II. He wrote that a succulent plant, similar to the Euphorbia, was a powerful laxative.^[1] In 12 BC, Juba named this plant after his physician Euphorbus in response to Augustus dedicating a statue to Antonius Musa, Augustus's own personal physician and Euphorbus' brother.^[1]

Botanist and taxonomist Carl Linnaeus assigned the name Euphorbia to the entire genus in the physician's honor.^[2]

References

1. 1 2 Flowering Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains, p 107, 1985, CNPS
2. ↑ Linnaeus (1753): p.450