WorldFloraDB - Euphorbia griseola

Characteristics

Branches rebranching above, 1–1.5 cm in diameter, 4–6-angled, not segmented to ± distinctly segmented with segments parallel-sided, often variegated between the angles; angles acute, sinuate, with tubercles 8–15 mm apart along the margins.

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Cyathia 3 × 3.5–4 mm, with funnel-shaped involucres; glands 1.5–2 mm wide, transversely oblong, touching, yellow; lobes 1 × 1 mm, rounded, fimbriate.

Spine shields joined to form a horny margin along the angles, or spine shields separate; spines 5–7.5 mm long, slender; prickles 0.5–2 mm long.

Spiny succulent shrub to 1 m high, densely branched from the base, or tree-like to 3.5 m high with a central stem.

Capsule obtusely angled, 5 mm in diameter, exserted on a recurved pedicel to 7 mm long.

Female flower: styles to 2 mm long, free almost to the base, apices spreading, bifid.

Male flowers: bracteoles 2.5 mm long, laciniate; stamens c. 3.5 mm long.

Cymes solitary, simple, subsessile; bracts 1.5 × 1.5 mm, scale-like.

Seeds 2–2.5 mm in diameter, subglobose.

Leaves to 20 × 6 mm, ovate, deciduous.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	shrub
Growth support	free-standing
Foliage retention	deciduous
Sexuality	monoecy
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Mature height (meter)	0.9 - 1.0
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days)	10 - 15
Germination temperacture (C°)	21 - 26
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Germination treatment	soaking
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