Euphorbia viguieri ankarafantsiensis, cactus Cacti Succulent real live plant

Description: Euphorbia viguieri ankarafantsiensis, Viguier's Spurge Origin and Habitat: The species is native to central-northern Madagascar. Altitude: Around 70-100 metres. Habitat: It grows in the open coastal forests mainly on strongly eroded calcareous rocks, the fissures of which are filled with humus. It is mainly found on sunny or half-shaded places in deciduous dry forest t ENGLISH: Viguier’s spurgeDescription: Euphorbia viguieriSN|25966]]SN|25966]] is a very handsome plant with an angular, bright green stem with vertical, spiraling whitish thorns and vibrant red topknots of floral parts. It is not a cactus, although it looks like one. Habit: It is a very variable deciduous spiny succulent species, with a single stem, usually not ramified. Stems: Narrow at the base up to 80(-150) cm in height, with a diameter up to 3 cm, 5-6-angled and ridged bearing whitish triangular-elliptic leaf scars and rows of irregular spines along the ridges. Leaves: Simple, clustered towards the tips of branches on a thick and short stalk, emerald green, basally red with white prominent veins on the underside, 6-15 cm long and 3(-6) cm wide, oval, at the end with a little mucro. Tends to be deciduous in winters in cultivation. Thorns: Laciniate (flat at the base and subdivided towards the apex in several thinner thorns) on a thick tuberculate base, robust, 1.5-2 cm long, secondary thorns longer or shorter. Inflorescences (axillar cymes): At stem tip, subsessile or on a peduncle long up to about 10 cm. Flowers (cyathia): Erect surrounded by two brilliant red bracts (cyathofills). The cyathia can be unisexual, even on different plants, or bisexual. Fruit (capsule): Three-chambered, each one containing only one seed which, when ripe, is expelled and thrown far away.

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