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Euphorbia flowers male or female
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Tue, Jun 19, 12 at 8:02
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RE: Euphorbia flowers male or female
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| Sorry Karyn. The first pic is a male flower. If you use a magnifying glass, you'll see there is a yellow "powdery" material on the ends of the anthers. The male flower will begin with, usually, yellow ball-like structures which will mature and become fuzzy or powdery; sometimes they don't mature and just fall off as small yellow balls. OK, let's not allow our minds to get off topic, here, this is a "G-rated" site!!!! The second pic is a female and is typical of Euphorbia female flowers in that it has 3 stigma to its pistil. The third pic is a very immature female flower. |
RE: Euphorbia flowers male or female
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| Maybe a correction on the 3rd pic. The pic is not clear and it could be a monecious flower. With some monecious Euphorbia, the female flower emerges first followed shortly by the male flower, as with this picture of Euphorbia leuconeura |
RE: Euphorbia flowers male or female
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| Thanks Howard. I remembered your previous post but when I went back the pics weren't there. I tried lifting some pollen from the meloformis with a paint brush but didn't really see any loose pollen so I guess they are still immature. I'll see what happens with them and the fruticosa flowers over the next several days. |
RE: Euphorbia flowers male or female
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| Bikerdoc, I only see one picture where you said there were 2. Is what you call the third picture a second picture? |
RE: Euphorbia flowers male or female
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| Mara, Karyn posted three pictures of Euphorbia flowers. My reference is to her pictures. |
RE: Euphorbia flowers male or female
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| Karyn, are you trying to cross the Euphorbia White Ball Project with the Euphorbia meloformis? The female flowers on the E. meloformis are not ready to accept pollen. You should be able to cross the other Euphorbia when the pollen gets fuzzy. If you have a problem using the paint brush, try a very fine pointed pair of tweezers and pluck off some pollen anthers and apply them directly to the stigma. If you are successful, you'll know in about 10 days to two weeks because you'll see a swollen green seed capsule. Don't forget to cover it, or you won't have any seed after the explosion!!!!!! |
RE: Euphorbia flowers male or female
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| I was going to try using the meloformis pollen on the white ball but the pollen isn't ready yet. They are still "little balls". Hopefully I'll see some fluffy pollen before the flowers on the white ball drop. |
RE: Euphorbia flowers male or female
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| Karyn, keep me posted. I have a meloformis that should have some female flowers synchronized with my male White Ball Project and both of us maybe will get some positive results. |
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