Red plant, green flower

Red plant, green flower#312921

By evenwind -  Fri Mar 23, 2018 8:01 pm
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- Fri Mar 23, 2018 8:01 pm #312921

This is flowering season for Euphorbia francoisii. They're fairly variable and I've got one with red leaves and green "flowers"... (Okay, they're not true flowers, but close. More technically, they're actually a pair of bracts with a center group of cyathia. But they serve the same reproductive purpose.)

Anyhow, I thought I'd share.

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Re: Red plant, green flower#312922

By Hungry Plants -  Fri Mar 23, 2018 11:29 pm
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- Fri Mar 23, 2018 11:29 pm #312922

Very cool plant. Reminds me of a desert rose. How does it propagate?

Re: Red plant, green flower#312951

By evenwind -  Sat Mar 24, 2018 3:08 pm
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- Sat Mar 24, 2018 3:08 pm #312951

Hungry Plants wrote:Very cool plant. Reminds me of a desert rose. How does it propagate?

Besides typical sexual propagation, they can be propagated both by stem and leaf cuttings. But I've never tried any of it, so for me it's all heresay. Anyhow, a link, if you want to know a bit more: https://www.euphorbia-international.org ... gation.htm

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