Tropicals > Euphorbia > Euphorbia heteropodum > Euphorbia heteropodum var. heteropodum

Family

Euphorbiaceae

Genus

Euphorbia

Species

heteropodum

Category

Tropicals

Variety

heteropodum

USDA Hardiness Zone

10b-12

Height

12 cm

Spread

150 cm

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Description and Growing Information

Flowering Period

Cultivation

Water moderately in summer months only. Requires indirect light

Habitat

Tanzania, Kenya

Leaf Description

Leaves glabrous to minutely pubescent, obovate to oblanceolate, to 6 long by 2.5 cm wide, with smooth, greenish white bracts.

Flower Description

Flowers greenish white bracts, lobes acute, and open ring of pink 3 mm nectar glands.

Fruit Description

Fruit strongly tri-lobed about 5 mm long and 6 mm in diameter, lobes acute continuing into narrow ridges, fleshy and toothed and pedicel of about 5 mm long. Seeds oblong 3 mm long and 2.3 mm wide, finely tuberculate and wattles.

Propagation

Propagate by stem cutting or by seed.

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