Euphorbia with flowers

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Shane
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Euphorbia with flowers

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That's one way to get your plant to flower :lol:

Funny enough, there were some genuine flowers growing on it too
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Re: Euphorbia with flowers

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It's a rose, isn't it?
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Re: Euphorbia with flowers

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Shane wrote: Sun Jul 28, 2019 1:24 amFunny enough, there were some genuine flowers growing on it too
Euphorbia don't have full flowers. They have dioecious cyathia which are single-sexed, greatly reduced remnants of flowers. They appear to have lost most floral anatomy millions of years ago based upon the numbers of species (all of them) that share this feature. In that way they can be said to be flowering plants (Angiosperms) that no longer have flowers. The part most people call flowers vis-a-vis Poinsettias are actually bracts. It's a pretty cool distinction if nothing else.
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