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• The graceful spurge is a small, herbaceous plant that is native to Central and South America, but has been introduced to many other parts of the world.
• The plant typically grows to be about 30-60 cm tall and has narrow, lance-shaped leaves that are arranged in pairs along the stem.
• The graceful spurge produces small, yellow flowers that are surrounded by showy, leaf-like bracts.
• The plant is also known by many other common names, including smallflowered euphorbia and madagascar spurge.
• The graceful spurge is often cultivated as an ornamental plant, as it is easy to grow and produces attractive flowers and foliage.
• The plant is also used in traditional medicine to treat a variety of ailments, including skin conditions and digestive disorders.
• Despite its many uses, the graceful spurge is considered to be a toxic plant, as it produces a milky sap that can cause skin irritation and other health problems if ingested or touched.
• The plant is also known for its many uses in traditional culture, including as a source of latex, fuel, and insecticide.
• The graceful spurge is an important food source for a variety of wildlife, including butterflies and bees, but should not be consumed by humans or domestic animals.
• The plant is considered to be an invasive species in some parts of the world, as it can quickly colonize disturbed areas and outcompete native plant species.

D. tortuosum? Iridescent-ish
“This species is characteristic in having long, ascending to spreading pedicels in fruit. The articles are distinctively twisted alternately along the margins when young.”
-MotFPoH by Wagner, Herbst, and Sohmer
Can see the twist in image 4

Original location was incorrect.
“Lepidium bidentatum is represented in Hawaii by two endemic varieties: variety o-waihiense distinguished primarily by its broadly elliptic to suborbicular silicles usually 4 to 5. 5 mm long (range of the species in Hawaii); and var. remyi With linear leaves 3 to 6 cm long, 0.3 to 0.4 cm wide, apex acute to rounded, and suborbicular silicles 3.5 to 4 mm long (Hawaii, specific locality unknown). Lepidium bidentatum var. remyi is known only from the type collection made by Remi between 1851 and 1855. A single collection (Degener 20165, BISH) made in 1949 in ‘Meteosiferos forest in 1859 lava flow, island of Hawaii’ probably also represents this variety, although the silicles are longer than wide. It is now presumed extinct.”
-MotFPoH Wagner, Herbst, Sohmer