The third and last dwarf Euphorbia I would like to introduce is the geophytic E. platycephala.


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Described by Pax in 1894 it is one of the longer known species but rarely seen in cultivation.

Its occurrence in the seasonal humid grasslands of W Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and N Zimbabwe gives a clue to its cultivation. When active growing E. platycephala requires plenty of water and likes to be kept almost non-stop humid. In winter when the annual shoots wither and die back it should be kept warm and totally dry. If treated like a difficult plant, in other words if only carefully = insufficiently watered in summer the plant dries out and fades away in next winter.

Frank

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