Euphorbiaceae

Plants in this section are mostly in 6.5 cm pots unless otherwise indicated and are seedlings or cuttings. All are well rooted and established.

The collection consists of over 90 species of Euphorbia and Monadenium, and we are constantly propagating.

No.	Name	Remark	Euro	Picture
Eu 062	Euphorbia actinoclada		8.00
Eu 040	Euphorbia aeruginosa	One of our favourites. The red thorns contrast beautifully with the bluish stems. Freely branching from the underground caudex and above. From the Northern Province of RSA where it grows in rock cracks	3.50
Eu 001	Euphorbia alfredii	Younger plants flower in spring before the new leaves develop. Mature plants usually flower during the entire dormant period. From NW Madagascar.
Eu 066	Euphorbia ambovombensis	Miniature from Madagascar with attractive indented leaves.	8.00
Eu 041	Euphorbia angustiflora	Freely branching, forming dense shrubs. While maturing the cyathia turn from yellow (female state) to red (male state). From the Chunya district of Tanzania. Limited	4,00
Eu 002	Euphorbia ankarensis	Similar to E. alfredii but with hairy leaves and more angles. Also from NW Madagascar.	6.50
Eu 058	Euphorbia antisyphilitica	Basally branching, thin stemmed plant from Mexico. Seedlings which will form a caudex.	10.00
Eu 070	Euphorbia antisyphilitica	Rooted cuttings	3.50
Eu 003	Euphorbia arbuscula var. arbuscula	Rare endemic from the island of Socotra, Yemen. Slow growing, becoming tree-shaped with the age. TEMPORARILY SOLD OUT
Eu 004	Euphorbia baioensis	Branching from the base and building dense clumps with the age. Only growing on top of Mt. Baio and a few surrounding mountain peaks in NE Kenya.	3.50
Eu 059	Euphorbia bubalina	Palm-like plant with up to 25 cm long, persisting peduncles. Said to take some degrees of frost. From RSA.	3.50
Eu 078	Euphorbia bupleurifolia	Like a pine cone with leaves! Established seedlings.	8.00
Eu 005	Euphorbia capsaintemariensis	Miniature euphorbia with a turnip-like underground caudex from Madagascar. Leaves appear in a rosette at the branch tips.	6.00
Eu 055	Euphorbia cotinifolia ssp. cotinoides	A beautiful ornamental due to its dark red leaves. Not a true succulent but a xerophytic plant that requires some watering in winter. From tropical America.
Eu 006	Euphorbia cylindrifolia var. cylindrifolia	Miniature euphorbia with cylindrical leaves from Madagascar. Spreading by underground stolons.	6.00
Eu 007	Euphorbia cylindrifolia var. tuberifera	Similar to var. cylindrifolia but developing an underground caudex.	6.00
Eu 010	Euphorbia decaryi × milii “Nat Wong”	Freely flowering hybrid with semi-pendant branches and pink flowers with a pale yellow centre. An attractive plant for a hanging pot.	4.50
Eu 008	Euphorbia decaryi var. decaryi	Another miniature euphorbia from Madagascar. Slow and compact growing.	8.00
Eu 009	Euphorbia decaryi var. spirosticha	This form spreads by stolons.	4.50
Eu 056	Euphorbia delphinensis	Slow growing, this Madacascan species flowers freely at any season. Limited TEMPORARILY SOLD OUT
Eu 011	Euphorbia didieroides ‘Honky Tonk’	The other parent may be E. lophogona because the flowers are pink like that species.	4.00
Eu 060	Euphorbia ephedromorpha	Extremely rare plant from Guatemala, not mentioned in any succulent plant book. Similar to E. guiengola, basally branching, building a root caudex, differing by sharply 5-angled shoots and smaller cyathia. Flowering from November to June, with fragrant flowers.
Eu 042	Euphorbia eyassiana	Freely branching and spreading by stolons. Needs very bright light to maintain its typical red body colour. From the Rift Valley of Tanzania. Limited	4.00
Eu 079	Euphorbia flanaganii cristata	An old favourite. Curls of green.	3.50
Eu 012	Euphorbia francoisii v. crassicaulis	Another miniature euphorbia from Madagascar. Building an underground caudex. Leaves are variable in shape, size and colour. Very Limited	12.00
Eu 071	Euphorbia glochidiata	The two coloured stems carry long branching thorns and pinkish cyathia. Very Limited
Eu 013	Euphorbia gottlebei	One of the most attractive of the Madagascan euphorbias with spiny stems, long and thin green leaves and bright red cyathia.	6.50
Eu 061	Euphorbia graniticola	Attractive, smaller candelabra-type plant from Mozambique. Thorn shields join together to form an attractive horny margin.	4.50
Eu 043	Euphorbia greenwayi var. greenwayi	Builds a small and dense shrub of beautiful marked stems. Remarkable pendant flowers. From the Iringa Escarpment of Tanzania.	3.00
Eu 072	Euphorbia griseola ssp. griseola	Well-branched plants.	5.00
Eu 044	Euphorbia griseola ssp. mashonica	Though plants in habitat build larger shrubs or trees, cuttings in cultivation flower freely. Native to Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi and Zambia. Limited	3.00
Eu 045	Euphorbia guiengola	Thin stemmed but a true succulent. Builds a mainly basally branching shrub from a root caudex. Flowers freely from November to June with fragrant flowers. A true jewel from Oaxaca and Chiapas, Mexico.	5,00
Eu 088	Euphorbia guillauminiana	Rare native of Madagascar. Mature plants form club shaped groups with dark green leaves in summer. Attractive but needs minimum 10C in the winter.	18.00
Eu 014	Euphorbia gymnocalycioides	Still very rare, this slow-growing spherical plant from Ethiopia is said to resemble a Gymnocalycium cactus. Seedlings
Eu 015	Euphorbia hedyotoides	From Madagascar. Seedlings with a well developed caudex which bears long thin branches topped by thin green leaves and small cyathia.	6.00
Eu 073	Euphorbia heterochroma	Stems are patterned light and dark green. Attractive. Limited.	3.50
Eu 074	Euphorbia heterochroma (spineless form)	An interesting form almost without spines. Very limited.	4.00
Eu 089	Euphorbia heterodoxa	Rarely offered Brazilian euphorbia propagated from material collected from habitat. If grown in good light forms a compact well-branched plant.	6.00
Eu 046	Euphorbia inconstantia	Variable species of probably hybrid origin. Erect columns, mainly branching from the base. From RSA.	3.50
Eu 016	Euphorbia inermis	Compact, medusa-type plant with erect branches from RSA	3.50
Eu 075	Euphorbia jansenvillensis	Compact plants with reddish colour in good light.	2.50
Eu 063	Euphorbia knuthii	Unsual form with cylindrical shoots.	5.00
Eu 017	Euphorbia knuthii ssp. knuthii	Dwarf plant with 3- to 4angled branches which arise from a tuberous root. Freely flowering, from RSA, Mozambique and Swaziland.	3.50
Eu 090	Euphorbia lactea cristata	Sometimes called ‘White Ghost’. Rooted crests.	8.00
Eu 057	Euphorbia lupulina	As branches appear at insane angles mature plants look rather interesting. Cyathia are produced in overlapping chains. Beautiful and rarely grown species from Colombia and Venezuela.	6.00
Eu 091	Euphorbia makallensis	Miniature with square stems.	6.00
Eu 064	Euphorbia maleolens	Freely flowering medusa-type plant from RSA.	3.00
Eu 076	Euphorbia mammillaris fa, variegata	Whitish green stems, clumping readily.	2.50
Eu 018	Euphorbia micracantha	Dwarf shrub from RSA. The underground plant body produces a multitude of 3- to 4-angled branches.	6.00
Eu 019	Euphorbia milii × moratii
Eu 020	Euphorbia millotii	An attractive, spineless plant with large dark green leaves, with a reddish back. Flowers in early spring before the new leaves appear.	5.50
Eu 065	Euphorbia nesemannii	Dwarf shrub from RSA. Thick stemmed, compact form.	3.00
Eu 047	Euphorbia orthoclada ssp. orthoclada	Rare but easy grown. Very Limited	5.00
Eu 021	Euphorbia pachypodioides	Madagascan euphorbia with a thickened stem and dark bluish-green leaves. Needs a warm position.	6.50
Eu 022	Euphorbia parvicyathophora	Miniature caudex forming native of Madagascar with crinkly leaves and flowers on long pedicels. Attractive, slow and still quite rare.	30.00
Eu 023	Euphorbia pedilanthoides	Madagascan euphorbia with thickened base and red cyathia.	5.50
Eu 048	Euphorbia petraea	Basally branching shrub from Uganda. Easy grown, freely flowering.	4.00
Eu 024	Euphorbia phillipsiae	Dwarf species, very spiny and building dense cushions. From the Golis Mountains of NW Somalia.
Eu 077	Euphorbia phillipsioides	Grafted plants. Slow growing and compact, with spines held out horizontally.	8.00
Eu 038	Euphorbia platyclada var. hardyi	This is the rare true var. hardyi which differs by greener and cylindrical stems as well as a shape which is clearly distinct from var. platyclada. From SW Madagascar. Limited	3.00
Eu 039	Euphorbia platyclada var. platyclada	Very variable in shape, strictly erect to declining, dense to lose branching. Almost ever blooming, even in winter. Looks best if grown in sun. From SE Madagascar.	3.00
Eu 080	Euphorbia polygona		2.50
Eu 025	Euphorbia primulifolia var. primulifolia “subapoda”	This certain form is also known as E. subapoda. Geophytic species with underground caudex from Madagascar.
Eu 049	Euphorbia pteroneura	Small shrub, branching from the base and above. Due to the angled stems often confused with the similar looking E. phosporea but easy recognised by its rather different cyathia. Freely flowering. A neat plant from Mexico. Limited	5.00
Eu 092	Euphorbia razafinandratsirae	Newly described species for Madagascar. Rooted cuttings.	10.00
Eu 050	Euphorbia richardsiae ssp. richardsiae	Densely branching dwarf shrub. Cyathia dark red to purple. From Malawi. Limited	3.00
Eu 026	Euphorbia rossii	TEMPORARILY SOLD OUT
Eu 051	Euphorbia saxorum	Small shrub that spreads by offshoots. Stems are reddish marked. Freely flowering with crimson cyathia. In S-C Kenya it grows in rock cracks. Unusual light green form from the Mutomo Hills.	3.00
Eu 093	Euphorbia sebsebei	Thin stems with attractive pattern of pale green on dark green. Rare.	8.00
Eu 052	Euphorbia septentrionalis ssp. septentrionalis	Basally branching dwarf shrub from Uganda and Kenya. Thickened roots. Shoots semi-pendant. Best grown in a hanging pot. Limited	3.00
Eu 027	Euphorbia spec. Nova Addo RSA	A distinct medusa-type plant from RSA.
Eu 028	Euphorbia spec. nova Madagascar	Very similar to the rare E. bulbispina but deviating by reddish cyathia bracts.
Eu 081	Euphorbia subscandens	Limited	4.50
Eu 029	Euphorbia susannae × atrispina		3.50
Eu 082	Euphorbia taruensis		3.50
Eu 083	Euphorbia tenuirama	Limited	3.60
Eu 067	Euphorbia tubiglans		3.00
Eu 069	Euphorbia “Twinkle Twirl”	Hybrid of E. susannae and ? Green tuberculate stems topped with a “twirl” of green leaves. Attractive and not fast.	3.50
Eu 030	Euphorbia unispina	Seedlings
Eu 031	Euphorbia waringiae sp. nova Madagascar	Still rare species. A miniature with thickened stem and lonf crinkly leaves. Flowers well.	15.00
Eu 053	Euphorbia xanti	Easy grown and freely flowering shrub from Baja California, Mexico. Looks best if pruned once in a while.	5.00
Eu 054	Euphorbia zoutpansbergensis	Cactiform species from the Zoutpans Mountains of RSA. Tree-shaped when mature but slow growing and remainig neat for a very long time. Young shoots show a beautiful red to maroon hue. Limited.	3.50
Eu 032	Jatropha cathartica	Frequently known as J. berlandieri. From USA and Mexico. Builds a huge, spherical underground caudex. Large plants.
Eu 033	Jatropha gossypiifolia var. gossypiifolia	Building larger shrubs. Leaves are dark red to purple when young. Beautiful ornamental if grown outdoors. Native to tropical America.	4.50
Eu 084	Jatropha podagrica	Seedlings of this pachycaul which carries large glossy leaves and red flowers.	5.00
Eu 085	Monadenium coccineum	Easy to grow with tuberous root, tall stems and red flowers. From Tanzania.	3.50
Eu 034	Monadenium guentheri	Snail-like plant with fleshy roots from the Teita District of Kenya.	6.50
Eu 086	Monadenium invenustum var. angustum	Similar to the type below, but with narrower flatter leaves.	3.50
Eu 068	Monadenium invenustum var. invenustum	Tuberous rooted and freely flowering plant from SA Kenya.	3.50
Eu 094	Monadenium majus	Flowers are one of the biggest in this genus. The smooth stems form a caudex.	6.00
Eu 035	Monadenium reflexum	First spherical, then building cylindrical columns. Slow growing but already flowering when about 2.5 cm in diameter.
Eu 036	Monadenium ritchiei ssp. nyambense	Compact growing and freely branching plant with thickened, fleshy roots. Spreads by underground shoots and therefore requires a broader pot. Attractive pink flowers.	3.50
Eu 087	Monadenium stapelioides	Propagations from material collected in Kenya. Forms a caudex.	4.50
Eu 037	Monadenium stoloniferum	Dwarf plant that builds a small caudex and spreads by stolons. Growing lawn-like in the leys of the Kenyan Masai district.	4.00