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aseedisapromise

ID this Euphorbia

aseedisapromise
17 years ago

The plant has a single dark green stalk that grew from a cutting given by a neighbor. That stalk is about 2.5 centimeters across. It has grayish scars left from where the old leaves have dropped up the sides of the stem. The stem would be pentangular in cross section. It looks oddly like a cross between a millii and an obesum, if you could imagine that. It has leaves and growth like a millii, but the spines that are along the ridges of the stalk in the millii are replaced with dry, reddish-gold fuzz. The flowers have no colorful bracts and are not on stalks like the millii, but occur above where the leaves meet the stalk. I don't know what all the flower part names are to decribe them, but they are insignificant, greenish-reddish buds that put out teeny white bristly parts, (maybe stamens?) and occur each time the plant gets a new leaf. The plant seems to not grow without making these flowers, The terminal growing point is covered with these buds. Apparently the plant is self fertile, because these flowers fall off and then the seeds sprout in the pot beneath. It takes two years for the baby plants to start flowering. The seeds are roundish, smooth, light brown in color, and about 2 millimeters in diameter.

Can anyone tell what this plant is by this description?

Thanks.

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