Euphorbia pillansii var.-공기린

공기린

Euphorbia pillansii var.

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Euphorbia pillansii N.E.Br.

Origin and Habitat: Western Cape Province from the district of Ladismith westwards towards the Ceres district.

 

Habitat: Grows on sandstone.in the arid winter rainfall area, rain in habitat is scarce and occasional summer thunderstorms also occur. Euphorbia pillansii can withstand temperatures down to -17,7º C.

 

Description: It is an unisexual (Dioecious) collumnar Euphorbia branching from the base and above to form small clumps
Stem: Thick, fleshy, in tufts, about 30 cm tall, shallowly grooved between, with horizontal bands of light and dark gray-green, with thorny margins and short lateral branches 3-5 cm in diameter. 

Ribs:

Seven to nine-cornered with prominent tubercles 4 mm apart.
Leaves: Rudimentary, green and caducous.
Spines: Stout and rigid 1-5 cm long, characteristically mostly near the top of the plant simple or forked with 1 to six spikes branching several millimeters away from the plant. These spines are stiff and can be sharp and (in contrast to those of Euphorbia stellaespina) are pseudo-thorns, i.e. dried suberized branched peduncles and persistent performing the function of spines after the seed has been dispersed.
Flowers: Small about 5 mm pale-green or yellowish, born at branch apices arranged in short cymes reduced to solitary cyathia or in 2- to 6-rayed umbels. Peduncles 8-14 mm long. Nectar gland elliptic, dark green, just touching
Blooming season: Late winter to spring.
Fruit: Globose, minutely hispid.

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