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Euphorbia lactea
Euphorbia lactea
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$12.00 CAD
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$12.00 CAD
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4" nursery pot.
Also called: Candelabra Cactus, Dragon Bones, False Cactus and/or Mottled Spurge.
This plant is native to Sri Lanka. It grows wild in tropical Asia and is widely cultivated in the West Indies, Florida and many tropical areas worldwide.
The Euphorbia lactea is a deciduous, spiny, usually leafless, cactus-like, succulent shrub or small tree. It can grow to a height of 15 feet but is typically maintained as a 1 to 2-foot houseplant. The specific epithet, lactea, means "milk' and reference the plant's poisonous milky-like sap that it excretes when it is injured.
Tiny leaves do appear at the top of the plant in summer but drop quickly leaving the plant leafless. Flowering is rare; however, if flowers appear they are found at the stem tips and are yellow-tinged, paired cyathia.
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