Euphorbia sp.

[Eric Muehlbauer]

Last year when I took my son to visit Dave Horak at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Dave gave him a tiny little seedling from the succulent house. It was maybe 2" tall....well, its now about 7" tall, robust, and blooming, and obviously a Euphorbia. Anybody have any idea of which species it could be?

 

[luvsorchids]

A sideways growing one oke: .

Susan

 

[NYEric]

Euphorbia paintotouchis!

 

[likespaphs]

pretty sure it's a yellow flowered milii, crown of thorns

 

[Eric Muehlbauer]

I had suspected crown of thorns, but the leaves are smaller than the normal red flowered form that I have.

 

[likespaphs]

from what i've seen, and i haven't always checked tags to verify, but it seems that leaf size on crown of thorns is rather variable

 

[Hera]

Euphorbia paintotouchis!

:rollhappy::rollhappy::rollhappy::rollhappy::rollhappy:

 

[Erythrone]

Crown of thorn.

Euphorbia millii

http://www.google.ca/images?q=eupho...A315CA315&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi

Many varieties are available.

 

[W. Beetus]

Yep. I agree that it's a Euphorbia milli, also know as crown of thorns. I had some interesting red and peach ones a few years ago.

 

[Eric Muehlbauer]

Thanks...I compared this plant with my crown of thorns...the leaves on the red form are about 3X larger, and much wider. But, crown of thorns was what I had suspected from the beginning...so I'll go along with the consensus. I didn't think it would bloom within a year.

 

[Yoyo_Jo]

I've only seen this yellow one once before; it's quite fetching to me, maybe because the red one is so much more common.

 

[Leo Schordje]

Thai nurserymen have been doing a lot of breeding with Euphorbia millii, there are now polyploid versions with gigantic leaves all the way down to genetic dwarfs. The color pallet includes white, green, yellow, oranges and reds. There has been some hybridization with a couple closely related species, but most are largely E. millii.

That your E. millii has larger leaves than this one your son has is not suprising, there are a lot of different varieties available now.