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Euphorbia flanaganii
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Posted by bikerdoc5968 6 SE MI (My Page) on Wed, Feb 1, 12 at 12:09
| This is not my plant. It is my son's plant and he is somewhat negligent from time to time. He gave it to me to see if I could perk it up; not that I have any magical powers to kick it up a knotch. I am assuming it is E. flanaganii but could be mistaken and anyone with a more correct name please chime in. My son really doesn't want the medusa head portions; he wants just the crested portion. I told him, "Sometimes you have to take what you get." Anyway, he wants the medusa head portions removed. So my question is do you remove the entire group at point "A" or each individually at point "B"? Point "A" attaches to the main crested portion of the plant. I won't be doing anything until I see some new growth.
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RE: Euphorbia flanaganii
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I would cut at both A & B, and give away to friends. If you want to keep the crested look. Also all the other little reverts. You could pot them up separately and have a different looking plant.
I am sorry I don't know which euphorbia it is. So many of the crested kinds look alike. Those new growth is the key to ID. I doubt if those cut-offs will ever reform a crest. |
RE: Euphorbia flanaganii
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| Stush, don't want the medusa heads to crest. Cutting at "B" gives me 3 plants as opposed to cutting at "A" and only one plant with 3 heads. Also, can you or anyone else confirm its ID? |
RE: Euphorbia flanaganii
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Bikerdoc,
Have no idea, but love the plant.
Sharon |
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RE: Euphorbia flanaganii
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| Ok, this is something new, maybe even weird, to me. This plant appears to me to be all crested/montrose of different variations. I don't see any part of what I would call the "original" plant before it montrosed. Seems to me this would make it impossible to identify. Also, it has two different kinds of changes, the flap type and the mendusa arms. Since I can't see the original plant, how would I identify it? or is the original plant a crested variety that grew a montrose? And if a montrose is caused by a genentic change that reproduced reliably, wouldn't that be a "new" plant requiring a different name than the original plant? Now you can see how my curiousity gets me in trouble. Obviously, I must be way off base here since you seem to know its name. So, what part of this plant should I be looking at in order to identify it? I suppose this is something one learns with experience which I don't have. Penny |
RE: Euphorbia flanaganii
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| Sorry for confusing you, Penny. The original plant was just the crested ("flat type") portion. Over time the 3 medusa heads grew, which happens with crested plants; they revert back to their "normal" self. To keep it growing as a crested plant, one usually removes the "normal" growth. The entire plant is the same plant, which I think is Euphorbia flanaganii. It's just a portion is crested and a portion is the usual medusa head form. There are no genetics involved. |
Where to cut
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| So McHarris, you'd cut it back towards the main plant and root it up as a single 3-headed plant, yes? |
RE: Euphorbia flanaganii
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BikerDoc,
What I mean is cutting it at 3 places and giving it away to friends (ME). You seem on top of this. You know what needs to be done. I looked it up on Dave's Garden and it does seem to be that plant. I would like to buy it if you want to sell a piece. |
RE: Euphorbia flanaganii
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| Personally I prefer the crests but neat all the same. |
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RE: Euphorbia flanaganii
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| BD, thanks for the explanation and the time you took for writing it. It's rather interesting to look at as it is. |
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