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Euphorbia - Jatropha - Monadenium
Euphorbia abdelkuri #1 -
Late list summer I was able to make some nice size cuttings from my old mother
plant, all four rooted and made some nice sale plant. This is my last one for
this year. Will be making more cutting soon. Euphorbia abdelkuri
are clumping
columnar stems, up to 3 feet tall, clumps can exceed 5 feet in spread. The
Euphorbia abdelkuri has generally 6 ribs. Sometimes plant will divide at the
growing tip to make new stems. Full sun to light shade. Avoid
any frost. From Add-al-Kuri island, next to Socotra Island (South Yemen). front,
top & back photos. Growing in a 3 1/2 pot @ $150.00
SOLD
Euphorbia aeruginose major
#1 & #2 - Euphorbia
aeruginosa major
is a larger form of a very decorative spiny, succulent, forming dwarf, shrubs
and a subterranean caudex. Branches bluish-grey or brownish-green with many
brownish spines. Branching occurs at or below ground level and above too. Its
name, which means 'verdigris', refers to the coppery-green branches which have
contrasting reddish-brown spines. Republic of South Africa. front & back photos.
Growing in 3 1/2 inch pots @ $18.00 each
#1 SOLD
Euphorbia aeruginose
minor #1, #2, #3, #4, #5 -
Euphorbia
aeruginosa minor
is a smaller form of a very decorative spiny, succulent, forming dwarf, shrubs
and a subterranean caudex. Branches bluish-grey or brownish-green with many
brownish spines. Branching occurs at or below ground level and above too. Its
name, which means 'verdigris', refers to the coppery-green branches which have
contrasting reddish-brown spines. Republic of South Africa. Growing in 3 inch pots @ $10.00 each
Euphorbia aeruginose
minor #1 lg -
Euphorbia
aeruginosa minor
is a smaller form of a very decorative spiny, succulent, forming dwarf, shrubs
and a subterranean caudex. Branches bluish-grey or brownish-green with many
brownish spines. Branching occurs at or below ground level and above too. Its
name, which means 'verdigris', refers to the coppery-green branches which have
contrasting reddish-brown spines. Republic of South Africa. front photo. Growing in 3
1/2 pot @ $15.00
Euphorbia ambovmbensis #1 -
Euphorbia
ambovombensis is
an amazing dwarf geophyte succulents with a round or oval fat base (caudex)
topped with several erect branches and spirally arranged leaves creating an
almost animated appearance. It eventually becomes a small shrubby bush up to 12
to 14 inchs over time.
Madagascar. front & back photos. Growing in a 3 1/2 inch pot @ $20.00
SOLD
Euphorbia antiquorum crest #1 -
This is the crest form of Euphorbia antiquorum,
known as antique
spurge and "Euphorbia
of the Ancients".
It is widespread throughout peninsular India, but its wild origin is obscure.
Sometime very small leaves will show along the new growth. front & back photos.
Growing in a 6 inch pot @ $38.00
Euphorbia bougheyi #1 - From
the coastal plain of Mozambique, is a tree like Euphorbia is interesting because
of the wavy, bright green branches that are 2- to 3-angled. The spines are small
but sharp, and the cyathia (flowers) are yellow. Front & back photos. Growing in
3 1/2 pot @ $18.00
Euphorbia bougheyi #2 - From
the coastal plain of Mozambique, is a tree like Euphorbia is interesting because
of the wavy, bright green branches that are 2- to 3-angled. The spines are small
but sharp, and the cyathia (flowers) are yellow. Front & back photos. Growing in
3 1/2 inch pot @ $18.00
SOLD
Euphorbia bougheyi #3 - From
the coastal plain of Mozambique, is a tree like Euphorbia is interesting because
of the wavy, bright green branches that are 2- to 3-angled. The spines are small
but sharp, and the cyathia (flowers) are yellow. Front & back photos. Growing in
3 1/2 inch pot @ $18.00
Euphorbia bussei ssp. kibwezensis crest #1 -
These plants tend towards forming crests. Normal form
is a candelabra-like tree from southeastern Kenya and northeastern Tanzania,
where it grows on rocky slopes. The branches are green, 4-angled, and have short
spines on the margins. Growing in a 6 inch pot @ $65.00
Euphorbia cooperi #1 & #2 - Thick chucky stem with reddish new growth. Growing in 3 1/2
inch pots @ $18.00 each
Euphorbia decaryi ssp. decaryi X Euphorbia cylindrofolia ssp. tuberifera #1 - This
is one of our greenhouse crosses. Not sure what growing under the soil at this
time? Front, top & back photos. Growing in a 3 1/2 inch pot @ $20.00
Euphorbia decaryi ssp. decaryi #1, #2, #3 - This is the thicker stem form of the
E. decaryi. Mate forming plant. Loves a well draining
soil. If your plant gets to dry and losses it's leaves it may take some time for
them to return. But don't give up on your plant it will come back. Madagascar. Top view photo.
Growing in 3 1/2 inch pots @ $18.00 each
Euphorbia decaryi ssp. spirosticha #1, #2, #3 - This is the thiner stem form of
the E. decaryi. Mate forming plant. Loves a well
draining soil. If your plant gets to dry and losses it's leaves it may take some
time for them to return. But don't give up on your plant it will come back. Madagascar. Top view
photo. Growing in 3 1/2 inch pots @ $18.00 each
Euphorbia duranii #1, #2 -
Is a open branched plant with leaves only at the ends, exposing the lovely
silvery-whitish stems which make this species special. Is "similar to milii"
just like platinum is similar to tinfoil. Flower are yellowish pink. 14" to 16"
tall. No freezing temps. Madagascar. Growing in 3 1/2 pots @ $20.00 each
Euphorbia excelsa monstrose #1 - This is one odd monstrose. Main stems
will thicken with age, makes crest, make clubs, makes folks and makes twist and
turns. South Africa. Front & back photos. Growing in 3 1/2 inch pot @ $20.00
Euphorbia excelsa monstrose #2 - This is one odd monstrose. Main stems
will thicken with age, makes crest, make clubs, makes folks and makes twist and
turns. South Africa. Front & back photos. Growing in 3 1/2 inch pot @ $20.00
Euphorbia francoisii #1 -
Variable leaf shape, even on the same plant, variable leaf color and pattern.
Leaves can be shades of green, almost to black, white to silver, with red
veining. Subterranean napiform root, which can be raised for bonsai effect. Tuberose
merging with the stem to form a succulent
geophytic caudex (rootstock). Southern Madagascar. Front & top photos. Growing
in 3 1/2 inch pot @ $20.00
Euphorbia francoisii #2 -
Variable leaf shape, even on the same plant, variable leaf color and pattern.
Leaves can be shades of green, almost to black, white to silver, with red
veining. Subterranean napiform root, which can be raised for bonsai effect.
Tuberose merging with the stem to form a succulent
geophytic caudex (rootstock). Southern Madagascar. Front & top photos. Growing
in 3 1/2 inch pot @ $20.00
Euphorbia francoisii #3 -
Variable leaf shape, even on the same plant, variable leaf color and pattern.
Leaves can be shades of green, almost to black, white to silver, with red
veining. Subterranean napiform root, which can be raised for bonsai effect.Tuberose
merging with the stem to form a succulent
geophytic caudex (rootstock). Southern Madagascar. Front & top photos. Growing
in 3 1/2 inch pot @ $20.00
Euphorbia fruticosa blue form #1 -
I think this
Euphorbia fruticosa is
going to make some monstose stems? Euphorbia fruticosa is a succulent to woody cactus-like shrubs, branching at the base to form a spiny
cushion of many twin-spined stems. Columnar, up to 3"+ in diameter and 15 to 20
inchs
tall, chunky powdery blue-green or yellowish-green, ribbed. A 'blue' form is
available.
SW. Saudi Arabia to N. Yemen. Front & back photo. Growing in 3 1/2 inch pot @
$18.00
Euphorbia fruticosa monstrose #1 #2 #3 #4 - This is a monstrose blue form of
Euphorbia fruticose. Reddish spined blobby stems. Small yellow cyathia (flowers)
mostly in the spring. Makes a really cool monstrose plants. Grow in
well-draining soil and good bright light. Yemen. Front & back photos. Growing in
3 inch pots @ $15.00 each
Euphorbia greenwayi ssp. greenwayi
#1, #2, #3 - Is a basally branching succulent perennial to 10" to 12" high with
attractively marbled stems that trail along the ground without rooting . The
four-sided branches are markedly variegated with vertical rainbow striations
fading from green to blue to whitish grey along the prominently and
sharply-toothed spined margins outlined in reddish brown. Unusual pinkish
flowers in spring with long, thin red stigma lobes beautify the plant. Two
subspecies are recognized, the nominate form and var. breviaculeata which
forms a taller, more erect shrub to 20 inchs tall with shorter spines.Tanzania.
Front photo. Growing 3 inch pots @ $10.00 each
Euphorbia knuthii #1, #2, #3 -
Euphorbia knuthii is
a dwarf spiny succulent shrublet with a tuberous main root, which continues into
a serpentine caudex, freely branched from the top. It is sometimes accompanied
by a number of underground rhizomes. It is closely allied to Euphorbia
squarrosa,
and Euphorbia
schinzii.
Tuberous and rhizomatous. The tuberous roots are very showy and in many plants
in cultivation are often raised above the soil. In plants which have been raised
from cuttings, these roots tend to be thinner, and are more branched, eventually
producing huge masses of many roots. In seed raised plants, the roots tend to be
much larger and tend to be less branching. Partly buried in the ground, with a
short or elongated neck merging with the fleshy root. From the central growing
point, the caudex produces numerous crowded branches, which look like a bunch of
apparently separate plants at the ground level. Southern Africa. Front photos.
Growing in 3 inch pots @ $10.00 each
Euphorbia lydenburgensis crest #1 - This is a crested form of
Euphorbia lydenburgensis almost spineless, cactus-like, succulent shrub with
characteristic branching crest. Lovely bright green with line markings yellow
flowers appear in spring. Really Cool Plant!!!
South Africa. Front, top & back photos. Growing in a 3 1/2 inch pot @ $85.00
Euphorbia malevola crest/monstrose #1 - Cresting twisting bluish-gray stems with
black spines. One of my favorite Euphorbias. Really cool plant. Origin: Malawi,
Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Front & back photos. Growing in 3 1/2 inch pot
@ $20.00
Euphorbia milii Poysean crest #1 - This is a crested form of the Thai Hybrid
Crown of Thorns are known by several common names in Thailand, there is no
formal or reliable nomenclature, and they are typically sold by color in the
United States. It is very rewarding and easy grow, having many versatile uses as
a perennial bedding plant, borders, or can be grown as a potted plant
indefinitely. Front & back photos. Growing in a 6 inch pot @ $50.00
Euphorbia milii bicolor
#1 - This came to me years ago with the name E. milii
bicolor. The E. milii bicolor I'm finding today are not what this one is. I
think the bicolor name comes from the yellow fl. and the red growing tips of the
new growth. It can get very red. Makes me think of a reclining Christmas Tree. I like the shape of this one. It grows to have the windswept look,
good for that bonsai look. Growing in a 4 1/2 inch pot. - front & back photos - @ $20.00
SOLD
Euphorbia neriifolia crest #2 - Is a fast-growing
crested succulent forming odd sculptural shapes. Its stems fan
out, some will form stable crests while others (the more common) just cluster
over one another. The crested form can also get very big making a spectacular
specimen.
India. Front & back photos. Growing in a 3 1/2 pot @ $20.00
Euphorbia
neriifolia variegated crest #1 - Is a fast-growing crested succulent forming odd sculptural shapes. Its stems fan out, some will
form stable crests while others (the more common) just cluster over one another.
The crested form can also get very big making a spectacular specimen. Stems and leaves are stripped in creamy-yellow.
India. Front & back photos. Growing in a 4 1/2 inch pot @ $30.00
Euphorbia obesa male & female pair #1 -
It
is a highly succulent solitary plant without spines or leaves that looks like a
green-brown football, but will sometimes 'branch' or sucker, creating very odd
looking clusters of spheres. Solid, firm, dome shaped, spherical, or when old
twice as high and elongated or cone shaped, up to 20(-30) cm in height with a
diameter of 9-10 cm, grey green, iron-grey, bluish-green or brown-green with
very attractive transverse red-brown or dull purplish bands and with finely
marked longitudinal seams marking its surface, creating an almost plaid effect.
Younger plants have a rounded sea urchin-like shape. This Euphorbia is
unisexual with the small, greyish green cyathia normally being all male on some
plants, or all female on others. Therefore cross pollination between a male and
a female plant is required to produce seeds. Pollination usually carried out by
insects. All euphorbias have a complex floral arrangement that is termed a
cyathium (a cup) and this is the unit of the inflorescence. A cyathium contains
many highly reduced male flowers or a single female flower. In Euphorbia
obesa,
the cyathia appear in summer, from "circular flowering eyes", situated along the
tops of the angles, near the growing tip, on the stem. They are produced on
fork-branched peduncles (flower stalks), have minute bracts and are finely
hairy. The cyathia are cup-shaped to 3 mm in diameter, expanding in the female.
The tiny flowers are delicately scented. South Africa. Front & back photos. Growing in a 4 1/2
inch pots @ $100.00 Sold as a male & female pair.
SOLD
Euphorbia platyclada #1, #2, #3 -
Euphorbia platyclada is
a fleshy succulent plant with weird flattened mottled red-brown stems radiating
from a raiseable heavy rootstock... nothing green about it. The branches are
very interesting, unique, ugly, with an irregular scab like texture, and look
dead, or at the very least zombified. These branches are splayed out with
fingers dangling like dead weights. Truly an oddity, this is a plant only an
enthusiast can love... looks like it's dead all the time and so pathetic looking
it makes many people laugh when they first see it. Actually, this is a very
interesting collector's succulent plant when grown into a specimen which does
not take too long. The flowers are at the stem tips, dull orange-gold or
brownish, tiny, only 2 mm in diameter. The flowers almost blend into the
dead-looking color of the rest of the plant. It is self fertile. Madagascar.
- Front photo & close up of stem with flowers. Growing in 3 1/2 inch
pots @
$15.00 each
Euphorbia pseudoglobosa graft #1 - This one
is one of those wacky grafts that my friend Mike Keeling made. Euphorbia pseudoglobosa is a dwarf spineless succulent that looks like a cactus,
eventually forming a subterranean caudex (often lifted up into view in
cultivation for looks) It forms thick mats of dwarf spineless segmented stems up
to 6 to 8 inchs in diameter. Euphorbia pseudoglobosa sows a superficial
resemblance with Euphorbia
globosa (hence
the name) but the the closest related species is species is Euphorbia
susannae.
However E. pseudoglobosa misses the clearly curved back tubercles characteristic
of Euphorbia
susannae.
South Africa. Your also getting offsets for the grafting stock. Front & back
photos. Growing in a 4 1/2 inch pot @ $25.00
Euphorbia sakarahaensis
#1 -
Euphorbia sakarahaensis,
as is implied by the specific name, is a little-known and localized species
confined to the Sakaraha forest in northern SW Madagascar. It is a deciduous
caudiciform shrublet 30-50 cm tall and as wide. Low-growing with few branching
spiny shoots and small yellow-green to dark brown petal-like cyathophylls
(coloured bracts around the cyathia). This species is related to Euphorbia
neobosseri but
less branching, with shorter spines and variably coloured cyathophylls. The
basal enlarged part oft the stem merging into a thickened taproot to form a
tuberous, rounded, succulent caudex with thick, yellow-brown bark. This
partially or completely subterranean, but raised in cultivation, it can grow up
to 5 centimeters in diameter. These are seed grown. Madagascar. Front & back photos.
Growing in a 6 inch pot @ $25.00
SOLD
Euphorbia
venefica
x groenewaldii #1 - This is a cross that was created by my dear late
friend Mike Keeling. These are seed grown plants. When I re-potted these into
the 6 inch pots I found them to have caudex like main stem. So I raised it some
to show it off. When growing in the spring and summer they may have small green
leaves. When they go dormant winter they will drop their leaves. Nursery origin.
Front, top & back photos. Growing in a 6 inch pot @ $40.00
Euphorbia venefica x groenewaldii
#2
- This is a cross that was created by my dear late friend Mike Keeling. These
are seed grown plants. When I re-potted these into the 6 inch pots I found them
to have caudex like main stem. So I raised it some to show it off. When growing
in the spring and summer they may have small green leaves. When they go dormant
winter they will drop their leaves. Nursery origin. Front, top & back photos.
Growing in a 6 inch pot @ $40.00
SOLD
Euphorbia venefica x groenewaldii # 3 - This is a cross that was created by my
dear late friend Mike Keeling. These are seed grown plants. When I re-potted
these into the 6 inch pots I found them to have caudex like main stem. So I
raised it some to show it off. When growing in the spring and summer they may
have small green leaves. When they go dormant winter they will drop their
leaves. Nursery origin. Front, top & back photos. Growing in a 6 inch pot @
$40.00 SOLD
Euphorbia venefica x groenwaldii # 4 - This is a cross that was created by my
dear late friend Mike Keeling. These are seed grown plants. When I re-potted
these into the 6 inch pots I found them to have caudex like main stem. So I
raised it some to show it off. When growing in the spring and summer they may
have small green leaves. When they go dormant winter they will drop their
leaves. Nursery origin. Front, top & back photos. Growing in a 6 inch pot @
$40.00 SOLD
Euphorbia variegated #1 - This plant came to me what no name decades ago. But,
I'm thinking it's Euphorbia ferox variegated. If you like weirdo Euphorbia this
is it. Nursery origin. Growing in 3 1/2 inch pot @ $20.00
Euphorbia variegated #2 - This plant came to me what no name decades ago. But,
I'm thinking it's Euphorbia ferox variegated. If you like weirdo Euphorbia this
is it. Nursery origin. Growing in 3 1/2 inch pot @ $20.00
Euphorbia valida
lg #1 - Years ago I bought male and female plants that where labeled
Euphorbia valida Large Form. We still have the parent plants and they're bodies
larger then softballs. These are some of the old babies for those plants.
South Africa. Front & back photo. Growing in a
4 1/2 pot @ $30.00
Euphorbia valida
lg #2 - Years ago I bought male and female plants that where labeled
Euphorbia valida Large Form. We still have the parent plants and they're bodies
larger then softballs. These are some of the old babies for those plants.
South Africa. Front & back photo. Growing in a 4 1/2 pot @ $30.00
Euphorbia 'White Ball Project' #1 & #2 - Offsets from my M2G "White Ball
Project". front & back photos. Nursery origin. Growing in 3 inch pots @ $15.00 each
#2 SOLD
Jatropha dioica #1 -
With leathery, arching stems that arise from an underground rootstock and in
winter look like dead sticks stuck in the ground, leatherstem is an unusual
plant. It spreads from underground runners to form colonies as wide as 6 feet.
The stems are rubbery and tough, flexible enough to be tied in a knot without
breaking. The clear to yellowish sap inside turns blood red when exposed to air,
hence the name "Sangre de Drago", which means "dragon's blood" in Spanish. The
rootstock is up to 3 feet long and orange-colored. The leaves are narrow and
clustered on spur branches, and two different leaf shapes distinguish two
varieties: those of var. graminea are longer and narrower (and sometimes with 2
or 3 lobes) than the wider, blunter-tipped leaves of var. dioica. Var. graminae
grows mainly in the Trans-Pecos and into Mexico, whereas var. dioica is more
widespread, found on limestone hills in Central Texas through lower desert areas
in the Trans-Pecos to New Mexico. Leatherstems's tiny flowers, white to pink,
appear in clusters in spring and early summer. It grows in full sun and
well-drained soil, and can be hurt by temperatures under 15 degrees F. The
astringent sap was reportedly used by Indians to treat sore gums, and it also
makes a dark red dye (which is harmful to cloth). Front & back photos. Growing
in a 4 1/2 pot @ $20.00
Monadenium elegans #1 & #2 -
Best know as Monadenium elegans. It's
a few-branched tree or shrub which can grow up to 10" growing in the ground in
frost free climets. As a potted plant I've never had one grow taller then 3 to 4
feet. The stems are folded with a flaking shiny yellowish brown papery bark. Greenish
white flowers. May go donate in the winter. Tanzania. Front photo.
Growing in 4 1/2 inch pots @ $18.00 each
#2 SOLD
Monadenium lugardae #1 & #2 - Beautiful light green up-right grower with pinkish
baby bird flowers. Southern Africa. Front photos. Growing in 3 1/2 inch pots @
$18.00 each
Monadenium stoloniferum #1 & #2 - Colorful leaves and stems. Makes underground caudex
roots that can be raised. Green and white baby bird flowers. Kenya. Front & top
photos. Growing in 6 inch pots @ $18.00 each
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