Euphorbia virosa virosa
| Family: | Euphorbiaceae |
| Full name: | Euphorbia virosa Willd. subsp. virosa |
| Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Gifboom, Gifnoors, Noorsdoring |
| English common name(s): | Milk bush, Candelabra euphorbia |
| Synonym(s): | Euphorbia dinteri A.Berger |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Usually only 1 cyathium scar between spines. A succulent spiny leafless bush formed of a clump of erect stems, 5–7 (or according to Paterson up to 15) ft. high and 2–3 in. in diam., simple or sparingly branched at the upper part, 5–7-angled, constricted at intervals of 1.5–3 in., so that the angles appear to be broadly scolloped, green, with a bluish tint, probably glaucous; angles not spirally twisted, separated by concave channels about 0.75 in. deep, slightly sinuate-toothed, with a continuous horny margin1.5–2 lin. broad; spines in pairs 0.25– 0.5 in. apart, 2–6 lin. long, stout, widely diverging, straight or slightly curved, brownish-grey with darker tips; leaves rudimentary, transverse, about 0.5 lin. long and 2 lin. broad, truncate, soon deciduous; flowering-eyes seated 2–3 lin. above the spine-pairs and nearer the pair of spines above than below them on the specimen seen; flowers not seen, but according to Paterson's figure, each flowering-eye produces but one 3-flowered cyme, on a peduncle 2–3 lin. long and 2 lin. thick, with involucres about 4 lin. in diam., having contiguous transversely oblong glands. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Capensis) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Photographer: | AA Dreyer |
| Date of photograph: | 20 Mar 2007 |
| Camera make: | Canon |
| Camera model: | PowerShot A700 |
| Lens aperture: | f/2.8 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/40 s |
| ISO speed: | - |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
