Euphorbia trigona Mill.
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Summary
Euphorbia trigona, the African milk tree, cathedral cactus, or Abyssinian euphorbia, is a species of flowering plant that originates from Central Africa. Somewhat common in cultivation as a houseplant or as a hedge, the species is one of the euphorbias with succulent stems and branches as an adaptation to arid climates.
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About the genus · Euphorbia
Euphorbia is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants, commonly called spurge, in the family Euphorbiaceae.
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Also known as Euphorbia hermentiana Lem.
Cultivation
Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Euphorbia, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.
Climate across the habitat
Natural habitat
Photographs
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Papers naming this species
Works whose title or abstract names Euphorbia trigona, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.
Related
Other Euphorbia 29 in the reference
Euphorbia amygdaloides Wood Spurge
Euphorbia antisyphilitica candelilla
Euphorbia bracteata Euphorbiaceae
Euphorbia characias Albanian spurge
Euphorbia corollata American spurge
Euphorbia cotinifolia Caribbean copperplant
Euphorbia cyparissias Cypress Spurge
Euphorbia decepta Sputnik
Euphorbia epithymoides Cushion spurge
Euphorbia geroldii Thornless Crown of Thorns
Euphorbia graminea Grassleaf Spurge
Euphorbia heterophylla Japanese poinsettia all 30 ›History & registers
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