| Author: | Robert
Allen Dyer, 1938 |
| Family: |
EUPHORBIACEAE |
| Origin: |
Mozambique, NE South
Africa |
| Soil: |
Mix |
| Water:
|
Medium |
| Sun: |
Medium |
| Thickness: |
9
Centimetres |
| Height: |
25
Centimetres |
| Flower:
|
Greenish
Yellow |
| Propagate: |
Seeds/Cuttings |
| Names:
|
- |
| Synonyms: |
- |
This member of the Euphorbiaceae
family was given this name by
Robert Allen Dyer in 1938. It is found in Mozambique and
north-eastern South Africa, growing in a
well drained soil with little to some water and some sun. The caudex
can grow up to nine centimetres in diameter, and if it is raised,
the plant can reach a height of 25 centimetres.
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 after B. H. Groenewald, a South African amateur specialist on
Aloe. |
