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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
Photographs
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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