Euphorbia
Milkwort
Named after Euphorbus, physician to the king of Mauritania, this robust, sun-loving genus includes the familiar Poinsettia and is over 1600 species strong. Most Euphorbia have a poisonous milky sap and soft-colored bracts that surround subtly defined flowers. Autumn watches many of their narrow green leaves turn shades of red, orange and yellow.
Each 11.25
We first saw this evergreen Euphorbia at Sissinghurst; its native home is the Canary Islands. Shrub-like and taller than its relatives, its smooth green stems are clothed with narrow, whorled apple-green leaves marked by prominent cream-hued midribs. The "honey-bearing" epithet foretells the ambrosial aroma of the intriguing flowers, which range in color from butter to terracotta. Stately in a container, is not reliably hardy where winters are cold and wet.
Blooms June–October
Size: 5' 0" – 7' 10" high x 3-2/3' – 5' 0" wide.
Zone 5/6.
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Other selections in this genus:
- Euphorbia ‘Acid Wash’
- Euphorbia amygaloides ‘Ruby Glow’
- Euphorbia ‘Blackbird’
- Euphorbia ‘Blue Haze’
- Euphorbia ‘Canyon Gold’
- Euphorbia characias ssp. wulfenii
- Euphorbia characias ‘Bruce’s Dwarf’
- Euphorbia characias ssp. wulfenii ssp. wulfenii ‘John Tomlinson’
- Euphorbia characias ssp. wulfenii ‘Lambrook Gold’
- Euphorbia characias ‘Red Wing’
- Euphorbia ‘Copton Ash’
- Euphorbia ‘Dean’s Hybrid’
- Euphorbia donii (Dixter Form)
- Euphorbia ‘Excalibur’
- Euphorbia griffithii ‘Fern Cottage’
- Euphorbia griffithii ‘Fireglow’
- Euphorbia griffithii ‘Great Dixter’
- Euphorbia ‘Helen Robinson’
- Euphorbia ‘Jade Dragon’
- Euphorbia ‘Limewall’
- Euphorbia longifolia
- Euphorbia x martini
- Euphorbia myrsinites
- Euphorbia polychroma ‘Candy’
- Euphorbia rigida
- Euphorbia sikkimensis
