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Euphorbia & Family

   Euphorbia abdelkuri xxlg - The plant that looks like melting wax. Yellowish flowers. Abd al Kuri next to Socotra Island, Yemen. These are cuttings from our old mother plant. Growing in a 6" pot. 1 in stock @ $85.00 each.

   Euphorbia aeruginose minor sm - Is a smaller form of a small decorative shrub with branching bluish stems and blackish spines. Small yellow flowers. South Africa. Cuttings from our stock plants. Growing in 2.75" pots. 50 in stock @ $13.00 each.

   Euphorbia aeruginose major m - Is a larger and slower growing form of a small decorative shrub with branching bluish stems and blackish spines. Small yellow flowers. South Africa. Cuttings from our stock plants. Growing in 3 1/2" pots. 4 in stock @ $20.00 each.

   Euphorbia alluaudii variegated sm - Creamy yellow variegation. Clusters of cylindrical, jointed, spineless branches. South-west Madagascar. Cuttings from one of our stock plants. Growing in the 2 1/2" pots. 5 in stock @ $18.00 each.

   Euphorbia anoplia m - This species is not known from the wild and may be a hybrid, possibly related to Euphorbia polygona. The short, cylindrical stems have few persistent peduncles, and the species forms a nice mounds. Cuttings from our stock plant. Growing in 3 1/2" pots. 5 in stock @ $10.00 each.

   Euphorbia antiquorum xlg #1 - Thick dark green crest with black spines. Small yellow flowers. India. Cuttings from our stock plants. Growing in a 6" pot. #1 @ $65.00.

    Euphorbia antiquorum xlg #2 - Thick dark green crest with black spines. Small yellow flowers. India. Cuttings from our stock plants. Growing in a 6" pot. #2 @ $65.00.

   Euphorbia antiquorum xlg #3 - Thick dark green crest with black spines. Small yellow flowers. India. Cuttings from our stock plants. Growing in a 6" pot. #3 @ $65.00.

   Euphorbia antiquorum xxxlg - Thick dark green crest with black spines. Small yellow flowers. India. Cuttings from our stock plants. Growing in a 8" pot. ! in stock @ $75.00.

   Euphorbia attastoma m - Erect, leafless, about 1 cm thick, constricted into segments. Segments about 10 cm long, sharply 4(or 5 )-angled, somewhat concave, grey-green to brownish-green, somewhat convex at the angles. Dark red flowers. Brazil. Growing in 3 1/2" pots. 2 in stock @ $18.00 each.

    Euphorbia bougheyi m - Interesting because of the wavy, bright green branches that are 2- to 3-angled. The spines are small but sharp, and the flowers are yellow. Mozambique. Rooted cuttings from our mother plant. Growing in 3 1/2" pots. 8 in stock @ $15.00 each. 

   Euphorbia bussei ssp. kibwezensis lg - Interesting crest! Grayish-green color makes of cool crest. Yellow flowers. Kenya and Tanzania. Cuttings from our mother plants. Growing in 4 1/2" pots. 3 in stock @ $38.00 each.

   Euphrbia bussei ssp. kibwezwnsis monstrose crest m - Interesting crest! Grayish-green color makes of cool crest. Yellow flowers. Kenya and Tanzania. Cuttings from our mother plants. Growing in 3 1/2" pots. 7 in stock @ $18.00 each.

   Euphrbia bussei ssp. kibwezwnsis monstrose crest sm - Interesting crest! Grayish-green color makes of cool crest. Yellow flowers. Kenya and Tanzania. Cuttings from our mother plants. Growing in 2.75" pots. 3 in stock @ $13.00 each.

   Euphorbia cap-saintemariensis m - Tuberous, branching. Madagascar. Growing in 3 1/2" pots. 2 in stock @ $25.00 each.

   Euphorbia clivicola sm - Short blue-green stems. Thick roots. Yellow flowers. South Africa. Cutting from our large mother plant. Growing in 2.75" pots. 20 in stock @ $15.00 each.

   Euphorbia clivicola m - Short blue-green stems. Thick roots. Yellow flowers. South Africa. Cutting from our large mother plant. Growing in 3 1/2" pot. 13 in stock @ $15.00 each.

   Euphorbia columnaris sm -This is an slow growing columnar species with its distinctive spines that resemble cactus. It is probably the rarest euphorbia of all. Spines: 2 cow-horn shaped, greyish to chalky-white that line the ribs. Flowers are in clusters of up to 30 small fine yellow cyathia. Somalia. These are offsets from our mother plant.Growing in 2.75" pots. 8 in stock @ $30.00 each.

   Euphorbia cuprispina sm - As name implies, the spines on this shrubby euphorbia are copper-colored. This is one of the most beautiful of the spiny Euphorbias. It is native to the Northern Frontier Province of Kenya. These plants are rooted cuttings. Growing in 2" pots. 5 in stock @ $12.00 each.

   Euphorbia debilispina sm - From the Central Province of Zambia, this small shrub forms large clumps with 4-angled, yellow-gray branches arising from a diffuse root system. The spines are small and rather inconspicuous, and the cyathia are yellow. These plants are rooted offsets. Growing in 2.75" pots. 3 in stock @ $15.00 each.

   Euphorbia decaryi ssp. decaryi sm - Thick stems that will grow upright for underground rezones. Pinkish-gray flowers. Madagascar. Cuttings from our stock plants.  Growing in 2.75" pots. 7 in stock @ $13.00 each.

   Euphorbia decaryi ssp. decaryi m - Thick stems that will grow upright for underground rezones. Pinkish-gray flowers. Madagascar. Cuttings from our stock plants. 3 in stock @ $18.00 each.

   Euphorbia enople crest m - Lots of twist, turns and fans. With red spines. These are cuttings from our mother plant. Nursery origin. Growing in 3 1/2" pots. 3 in stock $30.00 each.  

   Euphorbia forolensis sm - This spineless, shrubby Euphorbia is known from southeastern Kenya. It is a low-stature sprawling plant with four-angled stems and a yellow-green color, and its cyathia are yellow. These plants are rooted cuttings. Growing in 2 1/2" pots. 2 in stock @ $12.00 each.

      Euphorbia francoisii 'Select' Form #1 m - Eventually get large and form a caudex (a thick underground stem) that can be raised above the soil for aesthetic effect. The size and shape of the caudex will vary from plant to plant. Nursery origin. Growing in a 3 1/2" pot. #1 @ $40.00.

    Euphorbia francoisii 'Select' Form #2 m - Eventually get large and form a caudex (a thick underground stem) that can be raised above the soil for aesthetic effect. The size and shape of the caudex will vary from plant to plant. Nursery origin. Seed grown. Growing in a 3 1/2" pot. #2 @ $40.00.

    Euphorbia francoisii 'Select' Form #3 m - Eventually get large and form a caudex (a thick underground stem) that can be raised above the soil for aesthetic effect. The size and shape of the caudex will vary from plant to plant. Nursery origin. Seed grown. Seed grown. Growing in a 3 1/2" pot. #3 @ $40.00.

   Euphorbia francoisii 'Select Form' #4 lg - Eventually get large and form a caudex (a thick underground stem) that can be raised above the soil for aesthetic effect. The size and shape of the caudex will vary from plant to plant. Nursery origin. Seed grown. Growing in a 4 1/2" pot. #4 @ $40.00.

   Euphorbia francoisii 'Select Form' #5 m - Eventually get large and form a caudex (a thick underground stem) that can be raised above the soil for aesthetic effect. The size and shape of the caudex will vary from plant to plant. Nursery origin. Growing in 3 1/2" pots. 3 in stock @ $40.00 each.

   Euphorbia fruticosa monstrose lg - This is a monstrose blue form of Euphorbia fruticose. Reddish spined blobby stems. Small yellow flowers mostly in the spring. Makes a really cool monstrose plants. Needs well-draining soil and good bright light. Nursery origin. These are cuttings form our stock plants. Growing in 4 1/2" pots. 4 in stock @ $20.00 each. 

   Euphorbia fruticosa monstrose m - This is a monstrose blue form of Euphorbia fruticose. Reddish spined blobby stems. Small yellow flowers mostly in the spring. Makes a really cool monstrose plants. Needs well-draining soil and good bright light. Nursery origin. These are cuttings form our stock plants. Growing in 3 1/2" pots. 40 in stock @ $18.00 each. 

   Euphorbia fruticosa monstrose sm - This is a monstrose blue form of Euphorbia fruticose. Reddish spined blobby stems. Small yellow flowers mostly in the spring. Makes a really cool monstrose plants. Needs well-draining soil and good bright light. Nursery origin. These are cuttings from our stock plants. Growing in 2.75" pots. 2.75" 90 in stock @ $15.00 each.   

   Euphorbia globosa sm - Is a dwarf spineless succulent composed of weird globular, segmented fingers off a caudiciform base, up to 8 cm tall. It forms thick mats of dwarf subshrubs up to 30 cm in diameter. Flower are large stellate greenish yellow on long, thin stalks. South Africa. These are cuttings from our old mother. Growing in 2.75" pots. 10 in stock @ $13.00 each.

   Euphorbia graciliramea m - This small species, from northern Tanzania and southwestern Kenya, has small, spiny stems arising from a fibrous rootstock that becomes a pseudocaudex with extended time. The cyathia are yellow-red. These plants are multi-stemmed rooted cuttings. Growing in 3 1/2" pots. 2 in stock @ $30.00 each.

  Euphorbia horrida major 'Nova' m -  Is a spiny succulent shrub with irregular basally clumping stems. In age it will forms tight clumps of upright columns up to a metre wide that closely resemble some cactus species. Small green-yellow flowers. South Africa. Growing in 3 1/2" pots. 8 in stock @ $10.00 each.

    Euphorbia ingens crest/monstrose m - These are crest off a monstrose plant. Nursery origin. These are cuttings from our old mother plant. Growing in 3 1/2" pots. 7 in stock @ $28.00 each.

   Euphorbia knuthii xlg - Is a dwarf spiny succulent shrub 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. Mozambique, Southern Africa and Swaziland. From cuttings off one of our mother plants. Growing in a 6" pot. 1 in stock @ $30.00.

     Euphorbia lactea variegated crest 'Gray Ghost' m -  Is a striking and very popular cultivar lacking in most of the chlorophyll bearing tissues of it's green counter part. This Euphorbia crested doesn't even look like a real plant and has an overall creamy white or greyish coloration with pink edging. Nursery origin. Cutting from our stock plants. Growing in 3 1/2" pots. 17 in stock @ $30.00 each.

   Euphorbia lambii lg - This succulent tree looks like something that came straight out of a Dr. Seuss book! It has a thick gray colored main trunk and large wide spreading leafless lower stems from which erect thick branches arise capped with a pompom cluster of 6 inch long yellowish-green to blue green leaves. In spring it displays 6 inch wide bunches of showy circular greenish-yellow cupped bracts that are held above the foliage and hold the small green flowers. This plant sometimes has stems that spontaneously crest (also called fasciation) with the fan of leaves spreading out along a broadly horizontal stem tip. Euphorbia lambii comes from the island of Gomera in the Canary Islands where it grows in the forest margins of the northwest and central areas of the island from 2,000 to 2,600 feet in elevation and is considered rare in habitat. The name for the genus is derived from Euphorbus, the Greek physician of King Juba II of Numidia and later of Mauritania. In 12 B.C. King Juba named a cactus-like plant he found in the Atlas Mountains after his physician and later Carl Linnaeus assigned the name Euphorbia to the entire genus. The specific epithet honoring British nurseryman Edgar Lamb (1905-1980) was given to this plant in 1960 by the Swedish born Canary Island botanist Eric Sventenius. More recent phylogenetic work has determined that this name should be synonymous with a smaller growing plant also found on the island of Gomera, Euphorbia bourgaeana, and the name Euphorbia lambiorum is also sometimes used. We have continually grown this plant at the nursery since 1994 and continue to call it Euphorbia lambii until such time as Euphorbia bourgaeana becomes more commonly used. Seed grown. Growing in 4 1/2" pots. 3 in stock @ $25.00 each.

   Euphorbia lydenbergensis monstrose crest m - Light green and no spines. Make lots of cool twist and turn crest. South Africa. These are cuttings from our old mother plant. Growing in 3 1/2" pots. 3 in stock @ $40.00 each.

   Euphorbia mahabobokensis sm - Makes an excellent, complex caudex. Leaves are ovate with pinkish petioles. Fabulous natural bonsai. Madagascar. Seed grown. Growing in 2.75"pots. 8 in stock @ $30.00 each.

   Euphorbia mayurnathonii variegated m - Is characterized by its beautiful varying colors. This plant displays a blend of white and green shades that give the leaf a striking and attractive appearance. Besides, this type typically grows a columnar trunk. The stems are covered with small thorns, this contributes to its unique appearance. India. These are nice size cutting from our mother plant. Growing in 3 1/2" pots. 10 in stock @ $18.00 each.

    Euphorbia mayurnathonii variegated xlg - Is characterized by its beautiful varying colors. This plant displays a blend of white and green shades that give the leaf a striking and attractive appearance. Besides, this type typically grows a columnar trunk. The stems are covered with small thorns, this contributes to its unique appearance. India. These are nice size cutting from our mother plant. Growing in 6" pots. 2 in stock @ $40.00 each.

   Euphorbia meloformis lg - It has round green and purple banded, spineless stems with 8 to 12 ribs. It occasionally offsets from the base. It is very similar in look to E. obesa, but with small yellow flowers on long peduncles which dry and persist on the plant after blooming, It is quite common in cultivation, though less so than its relative E. obesa. Both species need male and female plants in order to set seed. South Africa. Growing in a 4 1/2" pot. 1 in stock @ $25.00.

   Euphorbia nerifolia crest xxlg - Crest forming thick succulent flutes and grooves appearing to be made from melted wax. Nursery Origin. Cutting from our old mother plant. Growing in 6" pot. 1 in stock @ $45.00.

   Euphorbia nerifolia crest lg - Crest forming thick succulent flutes and grooves appearing to be made from melted wax. Nursery Origin. Cutting from our old mother plant. Growing in 4 1/2" pot. 1 in stock @ $25.00.

   Euphorbia nerifolia variegated m - Normal cuttings from our variegated mother plant. Nursery origin. Growing in 3 1/2"pots. 3 in stock @ $25.00 each.

    Euphorbia milii "Cranberry Cowboy" lg - Is a hybrid with dark cranberry colored flowers. These are cutting from our stock plant. Growing in 4 1/2" pots. 16 in stock @ $18.00 each.

   Euphorbia obesa sm - It is highly 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. Euphorbia obesa is a wonderful example of convergent evolution. Cross pollination between a male and a female plant is required to produce seeds. This plant resembles the cactus Astrophytum asterias. South Africa. Seed grown. Growing in 2.75" pots. 16 in stock @ $18.00 each.

   Euphorbia polygona "Snowflake" sm - Is a highly branched. Branching comes from under ground. succulent with chalky white stems that have obscure tubercles fused vertically into 7 to 20 prominent, wing-like angles. The cylindrical-clavate stems can grow up to 6.6 feet (2m) tall and 6 inches (15 cm) in diameter. This cultivar has fewer spines than the species, with spines measuring up to 1.6 inches (4 cm) in length. The tiny leaves are soon deciduous. These are offsets off our old mother plant. Growing in 2.75" pots. 60 in stock @ $15.00 each.

     Euphorbia platyclada sm -  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 almost blend into the dead-looking color of the rest of the plant. Cuttings for our stock plant. Growing in 2.75" pots. 29 in stock @ $$15.00 each.

   Euphorbia pseudocactus ssp. lyttoniana m - Euphorbia lyttoniana is a very beautiful spineless variant (or cultivar) of Euphorbia pseudocactus with attractively squared stems and a pale green and yellow marbled epidermis and not really qualifying as a columnar Euphorbia. This semi-dwarf, upright mutant was selected from cultivated material and retains its spineless characteristic only by cuttings. E. lyttoniana is slower growing and tends to form closely spaced, compact colonies that can reach nearly 40 cm in height and 70 cm in diameter. Cuttings from our mother plant. Nursery origin. Growing in 3 1/2"pots. 9 in stock @ $18.00 each.

    Euphorbia resinfera lg -  Is a dense succulent shrub, forming multi-stemmed cushion-shaped clumps. Erect, succulent, 4 sided (almost square) that look superficially like a cactus. Light green to glaucous blue color, depending upon light. Spines are brown and short, but sharp in pairs of 6 mm spines on the angles of the ribs. Yellow flowers. Morocco. Growing in 4 1/2" pots. 5 in stock. 5 in stock @ $25.00 each.

   Euphorbia royleana inermis sm -  Is a deciduous, cactus-like, shrub or small upright tree up to 2-7(-8) m high, which is armed with short prickles along its stems. It has a stout trunk and is glabrous except for the flowers (cyathia). The cyathia are small greenish-yellow, 3-4 appear in almost stalkless clusters in leaf axils. But these are inermis (spineless). "Inermis" is a Latin adjective meaning "unarmed" or "weaponless," and is used in botany to describe plants that lack spines or thorns. Nursery origin. Growing in 2" pots. 2 in stock @ $35.00 each.

   Euphorbia schinzii sm - This spiny, sprawling shrub is from the northeastern provinces of South Africa, extending into Botswana and Zimbabwe. The plants have paired spines on the stems and produce yellow cyathia. Euphorbia schinzii is one endpoint in a group of shrubby Euphorbias and is taxonomically important. Cuttings for our stock plants. Growing in 2.75" pots. 5 in stock @ $15.00 each.

   Euphorbia waterbergensis m - This densely branched shrub is from the Northwestern Province of South Africa, where it tends to occur on quartzite. The stems are 4-6 angled with paired spines on the horny margins. The cyathia are yellow. These plants are rooted cuttings. Growing in 3 1/2" pots. 3 in stock @ $18.00 each.

   Euphorbia schloenlandii m - Is a small pickle shaped succulent srublet with prominent spiny tubercles, sometimes resembling a green pineapple, usually single stemmed but may branch with age. The “spines” are only the stout, woody, withered remains of fertile peduncles which endure. Seed grown. South African. Growing in a 3 1/2" pot. 2 in stock @ $25.00 each.

   Euphorbia serendipita m - The slender stems tend to grow tall and  may become top heavy. By topping them, branching can be induced to create little miniature trees with a classic saguaro-like silhouette. Was first found in 1988 in the area of Nairobi while headed to the Rift Valley. Cutting from our stock plants. 2 in stock @ $25.00 each.

   Euphorbia squarrosa X stellata sm - These are seed grown hybrid with a caudex. Growing in 2.75" pots. 2 in stock @ $30.00 each.

     Euphorbia tortilis spiralis m - Spiraling twisted short segmented branches and stems with extremely short, hard and sharp spines. Good for potted patio plant. India. Growing in 3 1/2" pots. 10 in stock @ $18.00 each.

    Euphorbia trigona variegated m - A beautiful variegated form with pinkish-variegated leaves. Nursery origin. Growing in 3 1/2" pots. 15 in stock @ $18.00 each.

   Euphorbia trigona 'Rubra Twist' m - There exists an attractive cultivated variant Euphorbia trigona 'Rubra Twist' with twisted stems and leaves flushed dark purplish-red. Nursery Origin. These are cuttings from our old mother plant. Growing in 3 1/2" pots. 3 in stock @ 18.00 each.   

   Euphorbia valida m - One of these is a much older plant. They are both the same price. Growing in 3 1/2" pots. 2 in stock @ $15.00 each.

      Euphorbia venefica x groenewaldii lg - We have keep back several plants of the original cross that my dear friend Mike Keeling created. The ones being offed at cuttings from these plants and starting to branch. Nursery origin. Growing in 4 1/2" pots. 3 in stock @ $28.00 each.

   Euphorbia viguieri ssp. ankarafantsiensi lg - Is a single-stemmed species with ovate, bright green leaves with red petioles and a stem with relatively short and stiff stipules densely arranged on the stem. The leaves have a short acute tip, but this is not consistent among the plants. The flowers are a stunning red and held on a fairly short peduncle. These are seedlings. Madagascar. Growing in 4 1/2" pots. 5 in stock @ $18.00 each.

   Euphorbia 'White Ball Project' sm - Offsets from my M2G "White Ball Project" mother plant. Nursery origin. Growing in 2.75" pots. 15 in stock @ $15.00

   Monadenium arborescens sm - Is a sparsely branched succulent shrub. The deciduous leaves are fleshy, light green, obovate. The underside of young leaves is bright red, turning green as they mature. The stem is pale green, obtusely 5-angled, with scattered, shallow projections along the angles, occasionally crowned by a minute, reddish-brown spine. The small flowers are pale green, tinged with pink. Tanzania. Cuttings from our stock plant. Growing in 3 1/2" pots. 2 in stock @ $18.00 each.

   Monadenium stapeliodier variegata m - Variegated thick stems with variegated leaves. It requires well-draining soil, bright light, and can tolerate shade. Nursery origin. Growing in 3 1/2" pots. 7 in stock at $18.00 each.

    Monadenium ritchiei ssp. nyambensis sm - Is a small clumping perennial succulent, with a thick fleshy rootstock that form large compact clumps with time. It is a dwarf subspecies distinguished by shorter, thinker and more numerous stems which are very knobby and erect. The leaves are glabrous and has deep pink flowers. Eastern Africa, Kenya. Cuttings from our mother plant. Growing in 2.75" pots. 29 in stock at $15.00 each.

   Monadenium rubellum sm - Is an odd caudiciform plant with dainty branched stems looking like a colony of twisting, light-green snakes and succulent lancelet leaves dappled in purple. This perennial, succulent herb is interesting not only because of its ‘round foot’, but also because it flowers pretty much year around, and doesn't seem to need a dormant period. This ‘round foot’ is where it stores its water reserves that are its stock for dry periods. Tuberous, swollen, semi-woody, single turbinate or obovoid, more often quite free-formed with multiple sections, about 8 cm long and 1.5 cm across. In habitat the fat rootstock grows buried in the ground, but in cultivation, once the tuberous roots develop, the plant is lifted above soil level and replanted with roots exposed making a very showy bonsai-like specimen. Growing in 2 1/2" pots. 7 in stock @ $25.00 each.

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