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A wild plant by Walker Young, Flickr.com.


The flowers from Naturalworld.nl.


Another wild plant from Redlist.sanbi.org.

Author: 

Nicholas Edward Brown,  1915

Family:  EUPHORBIACEAE
Origin: 

Eastern Cape; South Africa

Soil: 

Mix - Clayish Gravel

Water: 

Medium

Sun: 

Medium - Maximum

Thickness: 

10 Centimetres

Height: 

8 Centimetres

Flower: 

Greenish Yellow

Propagate: 

Seeds/Cuttings

Names: 

Sputnik

Synonyms:  (Euphorbia astrophora, Marx.
Euphorbia gamkensis, Marx.
Euphorbia suppressa, Marx.
Euphorbia albertensis, NE Brown?)

This member of the Euphorbiaceae family was given this name by Nicholas Edward Brown in 1915. It is found in the Eastern Cape in South Africa, growing in a well drained soil, in some areas with quite some clay. It thrive with some water and some to lots of sun. The caudex can grow to ten centimetres in diameter, the entire plant to eight centimetres in height. The flowers are greenish yellow.

The genera name; Euphorbia dates back to the first century BC, where King Juba II of Mauritania used it in a reference to his doctor, Euphorbos, and that name was kept as a generic name by Carl von Linnaeus. The species name for its pretending to be another Medusa Euphorbia.


A plant in culture from Giromagicactusandsucculents.com.