It is heavily charged with milky juice which oozes out at the slightest wounding of the surface.
It is often edible and in some cultivars may contain a milky juice.
Fruits are oval, flat, thin, reddish brown and have a milky juice.
Plants of this genus yield a milky juice, from which lactucarium is obtained.
The name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge.
The milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of making meat tender.
The flesh is oily with a milky juice and tastes like an avocado or coconut.
All parts of the plant exude a milky juice.
All parts of the tree yield latex, a milky juice, which is useful for boat caulking.
It often has purplish stems, and exudes a milky juice.