Euphorbia milii Des Moul.
| Family: | EUPHORBIACEAE |
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| Sub-Family: | Not available | ||||
| English Name: | Crown of Thorns | ||||
| Synonym: | Euphorbia splendens Boj.exHook. | ||||
| Common Name: | Not available | ||||
| Flowering & Fruiting Period: | Throughout the year | ||||
| Distribution: | Native to Madagascar | ||||
| Habitat: | Grown as ornamental plant | ||||
| Uses: | Ornamental, hedge plant, indoor plant. | ||||
| Key Characteristics: | Armed, sprawling shrubs. Leaves alternate, obovate-oblong. Cyathia globose, reddish; involucre with 5 rounded glands along the margin, alternating with 5 reddish laciniate scales. Staminate: Many, each consisting of a pair of anthers terminal on a short filament. Pistillate: Ovary 3-lobed, 3-celled, with 1 ovule on axile placentae; styles 3, basally connate; stigma 2-fid. | ||||