| Author: | Adrian
Hardy Haworth, 1826 |
| Family: |
EUPHORBIACEAE |
| Origin: |
Eastern
Cape, South Africa |
| Soil: |
Mix |
| Water:
|
Minimum - Medium |
| Sun: |
Maximum |
| Thickness: |
10
Centimetres |
| Height: |
30
Centimetres |
| Flower:
|
Greenish
Yellow |
| Propagate: |
Seeds/Cuttings |
| Names:
|
- |
| Synonyms: |
- |
This member of the
Euphorbiaceae family was described by Adrian Hardy Haworth
in 1826.
It is found on the Eastern Cape in South Africa, growing in a well drained soil with
little to some water
and lots of sun. The caudex can grow to ten centimetres in diameter,
the whole plant up to 30 centimetres 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 means 'having scales or scale-like overlapping leaves or
bracts'.
This rather
various species may have 2 to 5 angled branches. |
