Family:EUPHORBIACEAE
Weed description
The plant is glabrous, annual herb, 1-2 feet high. Often it attains a height of only a few inches. Branchlets are slender and spreading. They look very much like compound leaves. Leaves are simple, alternate, oblong and distichous. They are glaucous and have very short petioles. Flowers are small, axillary, yellowish, very many, hanging down below the branchlets. Fruit is a capsule, about 1/10 inch in diameter, depressed globose and smooth
CONTROL
- Intercultural operations reduce the incidence of the weed in tobacco.
- Pull the plants or weed them out by means of hand hoe.