Sentence examples for milky sap from inspiring English sources
Unlike cacti, euphorbias have a milky sap.
The petioles, when broken, exude a milky sap.
Milky sap was to be avoided, which is a good rule of thumb.
The milky sap, or latex, was once an important source of an inferior natural rubber.
The plants typically have gummy or milky sap and extremely hard wood.
Unlike most milkweeds, this plant has little to no milky sap.
When the leaves of the plant are crushed, a milky white sap is released.
There is also the problem of the milky, sticky sap, which oozes out every time a stem or leaf is broken.
The tree produces a milky, toxic sap that keeps insects away and makes an inhospitable habitat for birds and small mammals.
(Avoid the look-alike spurge, in the Euphorbia genus, which has thinner stems and leaves, and emits a milky white sap when plucked; it can give one a stomachache).
By no means was Willi the first person possessed by the power of latex, the milky white sap that drips from the scored trunks of rubber trees.
