Euphorbia (Poinsetta) (not Chamaesyce) dentata

This departure from the Chamaesyce follows upon Hope's yen to see a caruncle. Now getting a picture of a caruncle on a seed that was collected in 1995 is not as easy as it sounds. Nevertheless, when finally provoked to action, I, Crumby am a badger in a bag, for getting out of the bag.

May I please see the caruncule now, Crumby?

No Hope. Patience is a virtue.

So there I was skipping along the trail at Walnut Creek Park in Travis County when low and behold I beheld a Euphorbia dentata in fruit. So I said to myself and the two dogs that were in company with me at that time,

There is E. dentata and I do not believe, oddly enough, that I, the then presumptive Crumby Ovate, have ever collected that spurge despite its being rather common in these parts.

So then, after much additional thought and careful deliberation I did indeed collect that unfortunate plant and made it into a specimen.

Crumby! What about the caruncle?

Simmer down Rayetta. Patience is a virtue. And you ladies need to stop interruptin'.
Yer not goin' to hasten me, by constantly interruptin'. Er, so there I was in those days, even collectin' plants that I could already sight identify, because I was at that time only a short while into my trainin' and had many of the characteristics normally associated with the ignorant and vulgar.

Crumby, it is I the Goddess of Reality Checks and Nancy the Goddess of Practical Jokes is here also, visitin', and we would like to see the caruncle.

You would? Well alrighty then. You will see the caruncle anon, but first I must elaborate on the cancer-curing properties of this particular spurge, because when it's milky juice is applied topically to a cancerous growth of the skin, and even so also when applied to warts, those unappealing and unnatural growths are often vanquished, maybe. Plus

Crumby! We have not got all night. Now get on with it or else.

Hmph. So ye wanna see a caruncle, but remain in ignorance of all else. Well, all righty then. Here tis. Ray, hep me load em up.

Here's the dern caruncle, located just east. There's a line with an arrow pointin', to it. I had a real hard time gettin' any sort of picture of this here caruncle, but there it is, fer sure. This caruncle is situated over the beveled ventral surface of the microhylar end of this highly microtuberculate seed.

And this here picture adjacent is of the stalk that holds up the caruncle when the caruncle aint been knocked off. It's the little whitish stringy lookin' affair stickin' off the bottom of the seed.

So that's a caruncle. Well I swan.