Oh My GOLLY OLLIE WOWSERS Clyde :-D What a MAGNIFICENT collection of Euphorbias you have, we absolutely LOVE them all, you have the most amazing euphorbia collection we have ever seen in our life and they are all so happy and healthy in your incredible dream greenhouse, WOW such a fantastic tour and thanks so much for sharing Clyde and we are so looking forward to watching part two, Hans and I are sending you and beautiful Deb and all the plants and pets an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER and PEACE, LOVE, PLANTS from across the Emerald Isle to Morris Park in the Ozarks for a wonderful Tuesday ahead XXXXX
Thanks guys, I will be showing part 2 within a day or two and show more of the Euphorbia collection very glad you enjoyed the video!!! Gotta love the Euphorbiaceae!!!! From Morris park in the Ozarks to across the Emerald isle have a great Tuesday!!!!
Wow! Your very old clumping euphorbia are so amazing! And the hybrids that you created is impressive! Your greenhouse is like a botanical garden itself. 😉 If it is not too late, I hope you can tell us in the next video how you know if your euphorbia is a male or female. I’m very much interested to know. 😃 Looking forward to your Part 2.
Ok , if I can get a close enough shot with my phone I will try to show the difference in male and female flowers in these Euphorbias. Glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks for watching!!! From Morris park in the Ozarks have a great Thursday!! Peace,Love,Plants✌💖🌵🌸🌴🌹🌿
Thanks!!! Glad you liked them!!! I am kind of a Euphorbia addict!!! I really love them!!! Especially my big old plants!! Thanks for watching and your wonderful comment!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌️💖🌵🌷🌴💐🍀🌿🌱🌸🌳🪴🌻🌹🌾😃👍
I just bought one of these. At first I wondered why I bought it because I was convinced it was ugly. I figured my cat would not eat it. But now it is growing on me. There is something haunting about it.
Pretty soon you will have more!!! They are addictive!!! Thanks for watching!!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, have a wonderful weekend!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌️💖🌵🌸🌻🌾😃👍🌹
All this clumping comes with age. Some started as small single plants and offset as the years passed. Glad you like my channel!!! Thanks for watching!!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, have a wonderful day!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌️💖🌵🍀🌹🌴🌻🌳💐🌱🌾🌸🌷🪴🌿😃👍
Hi Clyde! OMG...What an incredible beautiful collection of euphorbias 😍😍 So huge and matured! Wow...I just love looking at them. I never knew there were male and female 🤭 Clyde, I can feel your love and passion for your euphorbias as you were naming and talking about them! Really really fantastic collection. More should see your plants. 🌵💐🌺🌼🍀🌸
That's impressive!! Thx for all the naming of them. I've been able to identify some of my Euphorbia's because of your video!! I'm here because of Anna from Cactus Caffeïne who reffered to your channel!! Have a great day 👍🌵
Thanks and your welcome!!! Glad I could help!!! And stay tuned for more great stuff!!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, have a wonderful day!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!! ✌💖🌵🌺🌿🏵🌲🌻🌳🌹🌴🌷🪴😃👍
I just got a cereiformis that I'm really liking. I think the polygonis is beautiful too! I think you should name a future hybrid Euphorbia Morris Park. Super collection. Maybe someday you could do a video on your caudex euphorbia plants and how to take care of them to maximize the beauty and size of the caudex. You're the euphorbia man for sure.
Thanks Terry!!! One of my new hybrids ( ceriformis X polygona) could just get that name!!! Thanks for the suggestion!!! Yes, I plan to do some spotlight videos soon , so maybe I'll show some of those caudiciforms and give the care info!!! Thanks for watching Terry!!! And your wonderful comments and suggestions !!!!from Morris Park in the Ozarks, have a wonderful evening!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌️💖🌵🌴🌷🍀💐🪴🌿🌹🌳🌸🌱🌻🌾😃👍
Thanks Wendy!! It took a lot of years to get most of these plants to the size they are. Some of the others are just lucky finds over the years.im glad you love this collection!!! Thanks for watching!!! And your wonderful comments!!! Have a great weekend ahead!!! Peace,Love,Plants✌💖🌵🌸🌴🌲🌺🌳🌻🌿🌷🍀🌹😀👍
Hai, new sucribere here 😃 Saw the video of caffee Caffeine when you donated some cuttings and in this video she said to take a peek at your side. Glad i did. You have a really really beautiful collection. So beautiful!!!
Thanks glad you like them!!! Thanks for watching!!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, have a wonderful weekend!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌️💖🌵🍀🌻🌱🌾🥀🌿🌿🌷💐🌴🌹🌳🪴🌸😃👍
Oh my goodness! I was so stoked when I got the notification for this video upload! 😱😍 Your Euphorbia collection is magnificent, Clyde! 🤩😍 Those plants are so precious especially the ones that have been with you for decades. You even created hybrids. I just love the cerrida. I even call it Querida (Spanish for female sweetheart). Thank you ever so very much for this video. Daz will be drooling over these plants. I know I did. I can’t wait for Part 2! Thank you once again and wishing you and Deb the best of health and happiness. 🙏🌵🌸🌼🌺🌷👍
I was drooling indeed haha, amazing Euphorbias Clyde, and the little hybrid you’ve created is awesome. Hoping to do that myself with some Haworthia this year. Now I’ve seen how spectacular those crested ones can get as they age I think I want more of them, they’re stunning. Thank you for sharing your amazing Euphorbias with us Clyde, looking forward to the next part. From Edith & myself to you and Deb, be safe and well and have a wonderful day 🌵☀️🌼🌸🌺🏜
Thanks Edith!!! More to come!! I would have done this in one video but my phone is limited, can't go over 20 minutes, it won't let me😡. But I do have a bunch more to show!!! Stay tuned for part two!!!😊 glad you like them and thanks for watching!!! From Morris park in the Ozarks to across the UK and Singapore, have a great weekend ahead!!! Peace,Love,Plants✌💖🌵🌸🌴🌹🌿
@@Cactimania Thanks Daz!!! Glad you like the cresty lacteas, I really love the variety they have of these now, and they really get spectacular with age!! Stay tuned for part 2!!!!! As I have a bit more to show of my Euphorbia collection!!! From Morris park in the Ozarks to the U.K. &Singapore have a great week ahead!!! Peace,Love,Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌸🌴🌹🌿
Greetings from Australia, what a wonderful collection of euphorbias. One of seven of my grandchildren collects succulents, and my grandmother gave me my first euphorbia. One of my largest ones would be well over 100 years old and came also from her collection.
Hello Cherree ! Wow! A great old plant!! I love the old ones!!! Glad to hear one of your grandchildren love succulents too!!!!! Euphorbias are great plants!!! Thanks for watching!!! From Morris park in the Ozarks, across to Australia, have a great day!!!! Peace,Love,Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌸🌴🌹🌿🌺🍀🌷🌳
Dessert plants of Avalon which I e seen how much they admire your collection and the sharing of plants! Thank you for showing us yours and I will watch part two now!
You are quite welcome!! I will be showing each one in its own video starting soon! So stay tuned!! Thanks for watching!!! From Morris park in the Ozarks , have a great day!!!! Peace,Love ,Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌸🌴🌹🌿🌺🍀🌷🌳
Awesome plants these Euphorbias. I purchased a Lactea white ghost (normal form) My plant has an amazing amount of pink , not just on the tips. It is growing fast. My Ammak variegated has tripled in size already from a small 4 inch plant. Euphorbia Ingens are very popular in Australia at the moment.
That's awesome Andy!!! Yes I love Euphorbias!! So diverse! Being that you are " down under " the ammak & the ingens will be trees in no time!!! What an awesome sight that will be!! Your lactea variagata sounds awesome!!! My crested variagatas have a bit on the growing tips, but yours sounds really colorful!!! Thanks for watching Andy!!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, have a wonderful week ahead!!! Peace, Love,!!!✌️💖🌵🥀🌳🏵🌿🌷🌱🌴🌸🌲🌹💐🍀🌻🌾🪴😃👍
@@morrisparkintheozarks6831 Currently heat wave conditions for a few days with hot Westerly (inland winds) 38 Degrees C. Sydney got 40 + degress C. Most of mine are in a greenhouse so I can keep them out of cold winter wet conditions. It only gets down to around 5 degrees c and no frost on the coast in Kahibah NSW. I have a nice mix of San Pedros, Bridgesii and some Aussie Trichocereus Yowie. One of my favorites is a big tall Trich Monstrose. They have all grown 6 inches in 2 months in the sun. I posted the pink Lactea on my UA-cam page under the Community heading fir you to see.🌵🦘🌵
Thank you for sharing your Euphorbias! I love Euphorbias I started my collection about a year ago and I can’t seem to stop being fascinated by how beautiful they are. Your hybrids look amazing.
Thanks Robert!!! I have been collecting for many years. Be careful or soon you will have a hundred of them!!! Hahaha! Euphorbias and cactus are my favorites as succulents go. Euphorbias are just so facinating. They can be a large tree like my "abyssinica" or I can walk out the door of my greenhouse to find a sprawling annual weedy Euphorbia growing naturally in the park! Both same family, same genus, totally different in form. Or like a Christmas poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima) AMAZING!! Enjoy collecting!!!! Thanks for watching and your great comment. From Morris park in the Ozarks , happy Euphorbia growing!!! Peace,Love,Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌸🌴🌹🌿🌺🍀🌷🌳
Absolutely. Euphorbia is my favorite genus. Tell me about it, i recently bought some Euphorbias online in pristine condition and that will be my demise, however nothing beats going to a shop or market to see/feel them in person.
@@ryebra How very true!!! And you can pick the exact plant you want!! But sometimes you just can't find what you want in the shop. Especially around here. We are very limited in choices. Unlike when I lived in California and could find almost anything! I'm lucky to find a different or rare one sometimes at a farmer's market, or off the wall shop where you wouldn't expect it. So I've been doing on line shopping to fill the need of a certain type.
Yes Richard, I love the diversity of the Euphorbiaceae! More to come in part 2 of my Euphorbia collection!! Stay tuned! It will come out in the next couple of days!!! From Morris park in the Ozarks , have a great day!!! Peace,Love,Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌸🌴🌹🌿
Wow What an amazing collection you have, I have a very small amount of short Euphorbias, I'm just starting, but I love them. Congratulations. I hope one day I get at least half of what you have.
Sorry Maria that I haven't got to answer your comment, sometimes the small ones are better. Cause they are easier to handle. Next season I will have to replenish the soil in my huge Euphorbia abyssinica! A very heavy plant at over 8 ft tall. This will require pulleys & rope to suspend the huge tree like plant while I replace the soil. And the pachypodium that's planted with it! Quite the job!! I see a video out of this!!! From Morris park in the Ozarks , have a fantastic day!!!! Peace,Love,Plants!!!!!✌💖🌵🌸🌴🌹🌿🌺🍀🌷🌳
Amazing collection, Clyde! Subscribed. I actually found your channel through Cactus Caffeine. Recently got my first Euphorbia horrida. Is a tiny baby (1.5" diameter) from a medium size mother. Can't wait to see how it grows but by looking at your cactus I think it will be a decade, haha.
Thanks Alex!!! And welcome to Morris park!!! Yes, when I bought my Euphorbia horrida Var. striata, it was just a little guy like yours!! 37 years ago!! Now it's a large multi headed plant! The best thing is watching them grow up!!! And remembering what they started out like! 🤔😀👍 Thanks for watching !!! From Morris park in the Ozarks, have a great day!!! Peace,Love,Plants!!!!✌💖🌵🌺🌴🌸🌲🌷💐🌿🌻🌹
Start em early!!! But be careful, or soon you might have a couple of hundred!!!😂👍🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵From Morris park in the Ozarks out to Miami, have a great day!!! Peace,Love,Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌸🌴🌹🌿🌺🍀🌷🌳
Hahaha! Yeah, might have been there a day or two🤣 Love my Euphorbias!!! Just planted some new hybrid seed I put together. Euphorbia gorgonis ☓ mini medusa hybrid. Got my fingers crossed 🤞 Thanks for watching Bill!!! And your great comment!!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, out to Atlanta, have a wonderful evening!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌️💖🌵🍀🌹🌴🌻🌳💐🌱🌾🌸🌷🪴🌿😃👍
Thank you for sharing.. great specimens. BTW, I have degrafted my Lactea crested and they grow very well (even surprisingly fast) on their own roots. I'm not against keeping it grafted, just wanted to point this out.
If you can, do an experiment. Root a cutting of a regular lactea, a white lactea, a green crest & a white crest. I think you will find that the green normal will do the best, grow fastest. Then between the white normal & green crest , then the white crest will probably grow the slowest. Lacteas are pretty tough altogether but the normal will always grow strongest. Thanks for watching!!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, have a wonderful week ahead!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌💖🌵🏵🌴🌺🪴🌹🌲🌷🌳😃👍
@@morrisparkintheozarks6831 Thank you for the tip. Makes sense that the lack of chlorophyll in the white specimen results in slow growing, and grafting will help grow it much faster. My Lactea crested is a variegated “speckled” one BTW.. and I think I’ll take the challenge and get a green and white crested to degraft. Worst case scenario, I’ll have more Euphorbias 😃
Thanks!!! Glad you love these Euphorbias!! Some have been with me for over 40 years now!!! Thanks for watching!!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, have a wonderful day!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌️💖🌵🌴🌷🍀💐🪴🌹🌿🌳🌱🌻🌾😃👍
@@not_going_to_treehab2790 Just a little ways down the road from us! We are just a bit north of ft. Leonard wood, St Robert , Waynesville area. From Morris park in the Ozarks, to on down the road, have a great weekend!!! Peace,Love,Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌴🌺🌿🌻🍀🌹
I have 3 different Euphorbia. Growing a lot and I’m wondering when is the best time to graft, or cut them off. growing very tall and pieces growing all around.
Best time to graft or take cuttings late spring, early summer. This is when plants should be growing in full swing by that time. Graft from part of plant with strongest growth. Best to take actively growing part of plants for cuttings. Hope this helps!! Thanks for watching!!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, have a wonderful day!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌💖🌵🏵🌴🌺🪴🌹🌲🌷🌳😃👍
How do you care for your Medusa? I have a small cutting and I don’t know if it’s thriving. How long did it take to reach the size that you have? Love your collection!
I have 3 different medusae types, I believe you are talking about my flanaganii. I have only had this one about 4 years. I bought it at the plant & garden show held every February in Springfield missouri. I have replanted it once. I use a gritty coconut coir, perlite, limestone gravel & dolomite sand mix . can't tell you proportions but I know by how it feels. Well drained & without peat in the mix like many comercial mixes have. I use this for most of my cactus & succulents. When starting a cutting rooting powder works great. Mist the cutting every morning lightly. It should grow roots in a couple of weeks. Feed twice a month during the spring & summer growing season with half strength tomato fertilizer. You will know if it's thriving when it shows growth on the branches & flowers. Also give it full sun for at least half a day. Glad you like my collection!! Thanks for watching!!! From Morris park in the Ozarks,Peace,Love,Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌴🌺🌿🌻🍀🌹
Over 40 years of collecting!! My oldest plants are 42 years old!!! Thanks for watching!!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, have a wonderful day!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌️💖🌵🌸🌻🌾🌴💐🪴🌿🌳🍀🌱😃👍
Any plant can crest. But this is rare. The best chance is to buy an already crested form. So chances are against your normal form cresting. Thanks for watching!!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌷🌳🌻🌴🌿🏵🌲😃👍
Many of my Euphorbias are kept dry from November to April. Some of the leafy ones I will water during the winter when I notice the leaves either start to wilt or pull in around the plant. These would be milii, trigona, lophogona. The caput medusae (Medusa heads) group you have to watch the branches. These will wilt a bit during winter. But if they start turning yellow then a little water would be good to keep the branches from dying off. So maybe once a month. Also there are a lot of variables. How warm/ cold is your environment ? How much humidity? My greenhouse can get into the low 40s on a real cold day. But humidity is only 30%. Low humidity in my greenhouse is due to the wood heat,which makes it very dry. This is great, cause if it drops colder, I'm less likely to suffer damage. If in your home, then just water when the soil dries out completely. Plants like stellata and other caudex plants I wait till the branches shrivel up a bit, then give just a little to keep them from drying up. As far as summer, water when the soil completely dries out. A way to tell this is , use a wood or bamboo skewer that you would use to make a shishkabob. Slide it into the soil at the edge of the pot. If a little moist soil comes out on it, don't water. If it's powder dry , water thoroughly and monitor the soil in this way. And that's about it! Hope this helps!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks,have a wonderful day!! Peace,Love, Plants ✌💖🌵🏵🌴🌺🪴🌹🌲🌷🌳😃👍
I was gifted a Lactea (sp?) & didn't realize it is a Euphorbia! I see the cylindrical part is planted rather deep. Are these planted deep so plant won't topple over? How can I get my Lactea to grow?? Thanks!😊
If you mean the crested Euphorbia lactea, the cylindrical part is another Euphorbia that the crested lactea is grafted to. Repot every two years, feed during the growing season( tomato fertilizer) at half strength. And that should get it growing!! And don't blurry the stem to deep, as this could cause rot. If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask!!! Thanks for watching Christina!!!! From Morris park in the Ozarks have a great day!!! Peace,Love,Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌹🌴🌷🌿🌸🌻🍀🌺
Hello, can you please tell me something about the red milk tree euphorbia? how do you make it have branches ? i bought one , it has one stalk , no branches
If you are referring to Euphorbia trigona " red form" no, this tree does not grow from a mainstem or central head where branches radiate out and grow from. This plant should branch on its own. Mine is a straight plant not cut and has many branches. But , with this said, if you snip the tip, it will force it to grow branches. You don't need to cut the whole top off. Just the main growing point. And it will branch! Thanks for watching!!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, have a wonderful weekend!! Peace Love, Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌻🌴💐🌳🌺🌲🥀🪴🌷🌿🌹🌱🏵😃👍
@@morrisparkintheozarks6831 thank you for responding , you are very kind, i posed the questions to many UA-camrs , no one responded, you are the only one , thanks again, by the way , i am jealous of your collection.
Yes, as they grow they are repotted about every two years except the very large Euphorbia abyssinica which hasn't been repotted in quite a few years as this will be quite a task. The largest Euphorbia in the greenhouse, it will have to be suspended from the greenhouse rafters because of its size. But that will be another video!!!😊. From Morris park in the Ozarks, have a great day!!!! Peace,Love,Plants!!!!✌💖🌵🌹🌴🌷🌿🌸🌻🍀🌺
Yes succulent Euphorbias that produce leaves are usually deciduous at some point. Weather it is winter cool dry period, or during the driest part of summer may lose their leaves. Quite normal. In my case it's for the cool winter rest period. I let them go dry for the most part and they drop em!! Thanks for watching!! From Morris park in the Ozarks, have a great evening! Peace,Love,Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌺🍀🌷🌿💐🌳🍁🌻
Might be worth a go, but I think I might need a dump truck load!!! These little ants are everywhere!! In everything!!! Not only in the greenhouse, but under about any object outside , and sometimes in anything hollow , like metal posts, outdoor lights!!! So I might have to buy in BULK!!! Hahaha!!! Thanks for the idea!!! And thanks for watching!!! From Morris park in the Ozarks, have a great evening!!! Peace,Love,Plants & no ants!!!✌💖🌵🌸🌴🌺🌲🌻🌳🌹🌿💐🍀🌷🐜😀👍
I would like to do this for you but I'm not set up to take payments. I've not sold my seeds or cuttings before. So I'm not sure how to go about this. And also it would depend on if you are in or outside the USA. If you are inside the USA this will be easier as I don't have anything like PayPal and currency will be the same. Also it depends on where you are at because of shipping cost. I just sent a package to the U.K. to cactimania for a swap of plants and this costs 25.00. Let me know.
@@morrisparkintheozarks6831 I don't want seed. Just cuttings let me know how much including the postal cost. Then send you a check. I live in Colorado State. I did the same thing at Wade's orchids if I order .
Ok Daisy, I think the best way to contact me would be through email. I don't have Instagram, and don't do social media, Facebook and such. And I find want my phone number in comments section here. So my email is tokaygecko13@gmail.com. I'll be talking to ya!😊
Euphorbia ate a diverse family of plants ! No joke. They can be a small annual weed in you yard, or a massive cactiform tree in Africa!! Or your Christmas poinsettia! These plants although some are " cactiform" are in no way related to cactus. The succulent part of the family sometimes grow like cactus because of what's called convergence. When plants grow in similar climate, they grow in similar form. Both cactus and Euphorbias are succulents. But in no way related. If you look at say "South Africa" and " Arizona" they have similar climate. So these plants evolved in the same forms . So three you go. No laughs. From Morris park in the Ozarks, have a great evening!!! Peace,Love,Plants#!!✌💖🌵🌹🌴🌷🌿🌸🌻🍀🌺
Euphorbia ate a diverse family of plants ! No joke. They can be a small annual weed in you yard, or a massive cactiform tree in Africa!! Or your Christmas poinsettia! These plants although some are " cactiform" are in no way related to cactus. The succulent part of the family sometimes grow like cactus because of what's called convergence. When plants grow in similar climate, they grow in similar form. Both cactus and Euphorbias are succulents. But in no way related. If you look at say "South Africa" and " Arizona" they have similar climate. So these plants evolved in the same forms . So three you go. No laughs. From Morris park in the Ozarks, have a great evening!!! Peace,Love,Plants#!!✌💖🌵🌹🌴🌷🌿🌸🌻🍀🌺
Euphorbia ate a diverse family of plants ! No joke. They can be a small annual weed in you yard, or a massive cactiform tree in Africa!! Or your Christmas poinsettia! These plants although some are " cactiform" are in no way related to cactus. The succulent part of the family sometimes grow like cactus because of what's called convergence. When plants grow in similar climate, they grow in similar form. Both cactus and Euphorbias are succulents. But in no way related. If you look at say "South Africa" and " Arizona" they have similar climate. So these plants evolved in the same forms . So three you go. No laughs. From Morris park in the Ozarks, have a great evening!!! Peace,Love,Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌹🌴🌷🌿🌸🌻🍀🌺
I Love euphorbias. You have a lovely collection 🙏💖💗
Oh My GOLLY OLLIE WOWSERS Clyde :-D What a MAGNIFICENT collection of Euphorbias you have, we absolutely LOVE them all, you have the most amazing euphorbia collection we have ever seen in our life and they are all so happy and healthy in your incredible dream greenhouse, WOW such a fantastic tour and thanks so much for sharing Clyde and we are so looking forward to watching part two, Hans and I are sending you and beautiful Deb and all the plants and pets an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER and PEACE, LOVE, PLANTS from across the Emerald Isle to Morris Park in the Ozarks for a wonderful Tuesday ahead XXXXX
Thanks guys, I will be showing part 2 within a day or two and show more of the Euphorbia collection very glad you enjoyed the video!!! Gotta love the Euphorbiaceae!!!! From Morris park in the Ozarks to across the Emerald isle have a great Tuesday!!!!
Wow! Your very old clumping euphorbia are so amazing! And the hybrids that you created is impressive! Your greenhouse is like a botanical garden itself. 😉 If it is not too late, I hope you can tell us in the next video how you know if your euphorbia is a male or female. I’m very much interested to know. 😃 Looking forward to your Part 2.
Ok , if I can get a close enough shot with my phone I will try to show the difference in male and female flowers in these Euphorbias. Glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks for watching!!! From Morris park in the Ozarks have a great Thursday!! Peace,Love,Plants✌💖🌵🌸🌴🌹🌿
OMG this is so beautiful! Gorgious! Thank you for showing! I enjoyed it a lot
Thanks!!! Glad you liked them!!! I am kind of a Euphorbia addict!!! I really love them!!! Especially my big old plants!! Thanks for watching and your wonderful comment!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌️💖🌵🌷🌴💐🍀🌿🌱🌸🌳🪴🌻🌹🌾😃👍
I just bought one of these. At first I wondered why I bought it because I was convinced it was ugly. I figured my cat would not eat it. But now it is growing on me. There is something haunting about it.
Pretty soon you will have more!!! They are addictive!!! Thanks for watching!!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, have a wonderful weekend!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌️💖🌵🌸🌻🌾😃👍🌹
You have some beautiful euphorbias I collect as well I like the way you let them clump together you have taught me a lot about them
All this clumping comes with age. Some started as small single plants and offset as the years passed. Glad you like my channel!!! Thanks for watching!!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, have a wonderful day!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌️💖🌵🍀🌹🌴🌻🌳💐🌱🌾🌸🌷🪴🌿😃👍
New subscriber. Great plants and video
Thanks Charles!!! And welcome to Morris park!! From Morris park in the Ozarks, have a great weekend ahead!! Peace,Love,Plants!!✌💖🌵🌸🌴💐🌲🌷🌳🌺🌿🌹
What a treat to have seen this collection.
Hi Clyde! OMG...What an incredible beautiful collection of euphorbias 😍😍 So huge and matured! Wow...I just love looking at them. I never knew there were male and female 🤭 Clyde, I can feel your love and passion for your euphorbias as you were naming and talking about them! Really really fantastic collection. More should see your plants. 🌵💐🌺🌼🍀🌸
That's impressive!! Thx for all the naming of them. I've been able to identify some of my Euphorbia's because of your video!!
I'm here because of Anna from Cactus Caffeïne who reffered to your channel!!
Have a great day 👍🌵
Thanks and your welcome!!! Glad I could help!!! And stay tuned for more great stuff!!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, have a wonderful day!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!! ✌💖🌵🌺🌿🏵🌲🌻🌳🌹🌴🌷🪴😃👍
@@morrisparkintheozarks6831 Will do!! You have a new sub :) 👍👍
I just got a cereiformis that I'm really liking. I think the polygonis is beautiful too! I think you should name a future hybrid Euphorbia Morris Park. Super collection. Maybe someday you could do a video on your caudex euphorbia plants and how to take care of them to maximize the beauty and size of the caudex. You're the euphorbia man for sure.
Thanks Terry!!! One of my new hybrids ( ceriformis X polygona) could just get that name!!! Thanks for the suggestion!!! Yes, I plan to do some spotlight videos soon , so maybe I'll show some of those caudiciforms and give the care info!!! Thanks for watching Terry!!! And your wonderful comments and suggestions !!!!from Morris Park in the Ozarks, have a wonderful evening!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌️💖🌵🌴🌷🍀💐🪴🌿🌹🌳🌸🌱🌻🌾😃👍
They are gorgeous!! I know you are proud 🥳
Thanks Wendy!! It took a lot of years to get most of these plants to the size they are. Some of the others are just lucky finds over the years.im glad you love this collection!!! Thanks for watching!!! And your wonderful comments!!! Have a great weekend ahead!!! Peace,Love,Plants✌💖🌵🌸🌴🌲🌺🌳🌻🌿🌷🍀🌹😀👍
Beautiful collection.
Hai, new sucribere here 😃 Saw the video of caffee Caffeine when you donated some cuttings and in this video she said to take a peek at your side. Glad i did. You have a really really beautiful collection. So beautiful!!!
Thank you very much!!! And welcome to Morris Park!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!
Beautiful!!
Thanks glad you like them!!! Thanks for watching!!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, have a wonderful weekend!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌️💖🌵🍀🌻🌱🌾🥀🌿🌿🌷💐🌴🌹🌳🪴🌸😃👍
Awesome informative video. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing.
You are quite welcome!! Glad you enjoyed the video!!! From Morris park in the Ozarks, WELCOME TO MORRIS PARK!!! Peace Love Plants!!! ✌💖🌵🌸🌿🌷🌳💐🌲🌹🌴🌻
The more I watch you the deeper respect I have for you. Some day, i’m collecting all 10 books the “journals” hugs bro 😊
A very wise choice for anyone interested in the Euphorbiaceae!! !!!! So much knowledge!!🌵😃👍
Oh my goodness! I was so stoked when I got the notification for this video upload! 😱😍 Your Euphorbia collection is magnificent, Clyde! 🤩😍 Those plants are so precious especially the ones that have been with you for decades. You even created hybrids. I just love the cerrida. I even call it Querida (Spanish for female sweetheart). Thank you ever so very much for this video. Daz will be drooling over these plants. I know I did. I can’t wait for Part 2! Thank you once again and wishing you and Deb the best of health and happiness. 🙏🌵🌸🌼🌺🌷👍
I was drooling indeed haha, amazing Euphorbias Clyde, and the little hybrid you’ve created is awesome. Hoping to do that myself with some Haworthia this year. Now I’ve seen how spectacular those crested ones can get as they age I think I want more of them, they’re stunning. Thank you for sharing your amazing Euphorbias with us Clyde, looking forward to the next part. From Edith & myself to you and Deb, be safe and well and have a wonderful day 🌵☀️🌼🌸🌺🏜
Thanks Edith!!! More to come!! I would have done this in one video but my phone is limited, can't go over 20 minutes, it won't let me😡. But I do have a bunch more to show!!! Stay tuned for part two!!!😊 glad you like them and thanks for watching!!! From Morris park in the Ozarks to across the UK and Singapore, have a great weekend ahead!!! Peace,Love,Plants✌💖🌵🌸🌴🌹🌿
@@Cactimania Thanks Daz!!! Glad you like the cresty lacteas, I really love the variety they have of these now, and they really get spectacular with age!! Stay tuned for part 2!!!!! As I have a bit more to show of my Euphorbia collection!!! From Morris park in the Ozarks to the U.K. &Singapore have a great week ahead!!! Peace,Love,Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌸🌴🌹🌿
Greetings from Australia, what a wonderful collection of euphorbias. One of seven of my grandchildren collects succulents, and my grandmother gave me my first euphorbia. One of my largest ones would be well over 100 years old and came also from her collection.
Hello Cherree ! Wow! A great old plant!! I love the old ones!!! Glad to hear one of your grandchildren love succulents too!!!!! Euphorbias are great plants!!! Thanks for watching!!! From Morris park in the Ozarks, across to Australia, have a great day!!!! Peace,Love,Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌸🌴🌹🌿🌺🍀🌷🌳
Dessert plants of Avalon which I e seen how much they admire your collection and the sharing of plants! Thank you for showing us yours and I will watch part two now!
Amazing euphorbia collection! Thanks for the video Clyde! 🌵🌱🙌
You are quite welcome!! I will be showing each one in its own video starting soon! So stay tuned!! Thanks for watching!!! From Morris park in the Ozarks , have a great day!!!! Peace,Love ,Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌸🌴🌹🌿🌺🍀🌷🌳
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Thanks!!! And thanks for watching!!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, have a wonderful week ahead!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌️💖🌵🌿🌻🍀🌴🌸🪴🌾🌳💐🌱🌷🌹😃👍
Awesome plants these Euphorbias. I purchased a Lactea white ghost (normal form) My plant has an amazing amount of pink , not just on the tips. It is growing fast. My Ammak variegated has tripled in size already from a small 4 inch plant. Euphorbia Ingens are very popular in Australia at the moment.
That's awesome Andy!!! Yes I love Euphorbias!! So diverse! Being that you are " down under " the ammak & the ingens will be trees in no time!!! What an awesome sight that will be!! Your lactea variagata sounds awesome!!! My crested variagatas have a bit on the growing tips, but yours sounds really colorful!!! Thanks for watching Andy!!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, have a wonderful week ahead!!! Peace, Love,!!!✌️💖🌵🥀🌳🏵🌿🌷🌱🌴🌸🌲🌹💐🍀🌻🌾🪴😃👍
@@morrisparkintheozarks6831 Currently heat wave conditions for a few days with hot Westerly (inland winds) 38 Degrees C. Sydney got 40 + degress C. Most of mine are in a greenhouse so I can keep them out of cold winter wet conditions. It only gets down to around 5 degrees c and no frost on the coast in Kahibah NSW. I have a nice mix of San Pedros, Bridgesii and some Aussie Trichocereus Yowie. One of my favorites is a big tall Trich Monstrose. They have all grown 6 inches in 2 months in the sun. I posted the pink Lactea on my UA-cam page under the Community heading fir you to see.🌵🦘🌵
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Clyde nice to meet you! What a wonderful video! Your plants are amazing congrats!
I heard about you through Ana from Las Vegas and from
Ana Of Cactuscaffeine is AWESOME!!! She has wonderful plants & flowers!!! I am so glad to have her cactus seeds growing here at Morris park!!!
Beautiful specimens!
Awesome cactus collection. Hello from Japan
Amazing collection!
Thank you for sharing your Euphorbias! I love Euphorbias I started my collection about a year ago and I can’t seem to stop being fascinated by how beautiful they are. Your hybrids look amazing.
Thanks Robert!!! I have been collecting for many years. Be careful or soon you will have a hundred of them!!! Hahaha! Euphorbias and cactus are my favorites as succulents go. Euphorbias are just so facinating. They can be a large tree like my "abyssinica" or I can walk out the door of my greenhouse to find a sprawling annual weedy Euphorbia growing naturally in the park! Both same family, same genus, totally different in form. Or like a Christmas poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima) AMAZING!! Enjoy collecting!!!! Thanks for watching and your great comment. From Morris park in the Ozarks , happy Euphorbia growing!!! Peace,Love,Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌸🌴🌹🌿🌺🍀🌷🌳
Absolutely. Euphorbia is my favorite genus. Tell me about it, i recently bought some Euphorbias online in pristine condition and that will be my demise, however nothing beats going to a shop or market to see/feel them in person.
@@ryebra How very true!!! And you can pick the exact plant you want!! But sometimes you just can't find what you want in the shop. Especially around here. We are very limited in choices. Unlike when I lived in California and could find almost anything! I'm lucky to find a different or rare one sometimes at a farmer's market, or off the wall shop where you wouldn't expect it. So I've been doing on line shopping to fill the need of a certain type.
These are magnificent Clyde..so much variety is incredible ...I can quite see why you collect them
Yes Richard, I love the diversity of the Euphorbiaceae! More to come in part 2 of my Euphorbia collection!! Stay tuned! It will come out in the next couple of days!!! From Morris park in the Ozarks , have a great day!!! Peace,Love,Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌸🌴🌹🌿
Wow What an amazing collection you have, I have a very small amount of short Euphorbias, I'm just starting, but I love them. Congratulations. I hope one day I get at least half of what you have.
Sorry Maria that I haven't got to answer your comment, sometimes the small ones are better. Cause they are easier to handle. Next season I will have to replenish the soil in my huge Euphorbia abyssinica! A very heavy plant at over 8 ft tall. This will require pulleys & rope to suspend the huge tree like plant while I replace the soil. And the pachypodium that's planted with it! Quite the job!! I see a video out of this!!! From Morris park in the Ozarks , have a fantastic day!!!! Peace,Love,Plants!!!!!✌💖🌵🌸🌴🌹🌿🌺🍀🌷🌳
Amazing collection, Clyde! Subscribed. I actually found your channel through Cactus Caffeine. Recently got my first Euphorbia horrida. Is a tiny baby (1.5" diameter) from a medium size mother. Can't wait to see how it grows but by looking at your cactus I think it will be a decade, haha.
Thanks Alex!!! And welcome to Morris park!!! Yes, when I bought my Euphorbia horrida Var. striata, it was just a little guy like yours!! 37 years ago!! Now it's a large multi headed plant! The best thing is watching them grow up!!! And remembering what they started out like! 🤔😀👍 Thanks for watching !!! From Morris park in the Ozarks, have a great day!!! Peace,Love,Plants!!!!✌💖🌵🌺🌴🌸🌲🌷💐🌿🌻🌹
I’m Beatriz from Miami a grandma of six and two are already starting their collection! Tha Pandemia started me!🤣🤣🤣
Start em early!!! But be careful, or soon you might have a couple of hundred!!!😂👍🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵From Morris park in the Ozarks out to Miami, have a great day!!! Peace,Love,Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌸🌴🌹🌿🌺🍀🌷🌳
It is not your first day on the job is it? Great collection, thanks for sharing.
Hahaha! Yeah, might have been there a day or two🤣 Love my Euphorbias!!! Just planted some new hybrid seed I put together. Euphorbia gorgonis ☓ mini medusa hybrid. Got my fingers crossed 🤞 Thanks for watching Bill!!! And your great comment!!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, out to Atlanta, have a wonderful evening!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌️💖🌵🍀🌹🌴🌻🌳💐🌱🌾🌸🌷🪴🌿😃👍
Thank you for sharing.. great specimens.
BTW, I have degrafted my Lactea crested and they grow very well (even surprisingly fast) on their own roots.
I'm not against keeping it grafted, just wanted to point this out.
If you can, do an experiment. Root a cutting of a regular lactea, a white lactea, a green crest & a white crest. I think you will find that the green normal will do the best, grow fastest. Then between the white normal & green crest , then the white crest will probably grow the slowest. Lacteas are pretty tough altogether but the normal will always grow strongest. Thanks for watching!!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, have a wonderful week ahead!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌💖🌵🏵🌴🌺🪴🌹🌲🌷🌳😃👍
@@morrisparkintheozarks6831 Thank you for the tip.
Makes sense that the lack of chlorophyll in the white specimen results in slow growing, and grafting will help grow it much faster.
My Lactea crested is a variegated “speckled” one BTW.. and I think I’ll take the challenge and get a green and white crested to degraft.
Worst case scenario, I’ll have more Euphorbias 😃
@@clearobsession3409 Yippee !!! More Euphorbias!!! 🌵😃👍
Todos lindos
Muito linda parabéns ❤🎉
Thanks!!! Glad you love these Euphorbias!! Some have been with me for over 40 years now!!! Thanks for watching!!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, have a wonderful day!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌️💖🌵🌴🌷🍀💐🪴🌹🌿🌳🌱🌻🌾😃👍
Just found your channel, I’m also in the ozarks 🙂
How cool!! In Missouri or Arkansas?
Clyde Morris I’m near Branson
@@not_going_to_treehab2790 Just a little ways down the road from us! We are just a bit north of ft. Leonard wood, St Robert , Waynesville area. From Morris park in the Ozarks, to on down the road, have a great weekend!!! Peace,Love,Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌴🌺🌿🌻🍀🌹
I have 3 different Euphorbia. Growing a lot and I’m wondering when is the best time to graft, or cut them off. growing very tall and pieces growing all around.
Best time to graft or take cuttings late spring, early summer. This is when plants should be growing in full swing by that time. Graft from part of plant with strongest growth. Best to take actively growing part of plants for cuttings. Hope this helps!! Thanks for watching!!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, have a wonderful day!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌💖🌵🏵🌴🌺🪴🌹🌲🌷🌳😃👍
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I am just getting into collecting euphorbias was wondering your soil mixture and any other tips would be appreciated
How do you care for your Medusa? I have a small cutting and I don’t know if it’s thriving. How long did it take to reach the size that you have? Love your collection!
I have 3 different medusae types, I believe you are talking about my flanaganii. I have only had this one about 4 years. I bought it at the plant & garden show held every February in Springfield missouri. I have replanted it once. I use a gritty coconut coir, perlite, limestone gravel & dolomite sand mix . can't tell you proportions but I know by how it feels. Well drained & without peat in the mix like many comercial mixes have. I use this for most of my cactus & succulents. When starting a cutting rooting powder works great. Mist the cutting every morning lightly. It should grow roots in a couple of weeks. Feed twice a month during the spring & summer growing season with half strength tomato fertilizer. You will know if it's thriving when it shows growth on the branches & flowers. Also give it full sun for at least half a day. Glad you like my collection!! Thanks for watching!!! From Morris park in the Ozarks,Peace,Love,Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌴🌺🌿🌻🍀🌹
My God, you have a lot of cacti
Over 40 years of collecting!! My oldest plants are 42 years old!!! Thanks for watching!!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, have a wonderful day!!! Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌️💖🌵🌸🌻🌾🌴💐🪴🌿🌳🍀🌱😃👍
Aye friend, do you think my eurphobia Trigona will crest one day before I die?
Any plant can crest. But this is rare. The best chance is to buy an already crested form. So chances are against your normal form cresting. Thanks for watching!!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, Peace, Love, Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌷🌳🌻🌴🌿🏵🌲😃👍
Tell us how you care for Euphorbias in summer and winter? I worry they mite rot if I water them in winter.Thank you.
Many of my Euphorbias are kept dry from November to April. Some of the leafy ones I will water during the winter when I notice the leaves either start to wilt or pull in around the plant. These would be milii, trigona, lophogona. The caput medusae (Medusa heads) group you have to watch the branches. These will wilt a bit during winter. But if they start turning yellow then a little water would be good to keep the branches from dying off. So maybe once a month. Also there are a lot of variables. How warm/ cold is your environment ? How much humidity? My greenhouse can get into the low 40s on a real cold day. But humidity is only 30%. Low humidity in my greenhouse is due to the wood heat,which makes it very dry. This is great, cause if it drops colder, I'm less likely to suffer damage. If in your home, then just water when the soil dries out completely. Plants like stellata and other caudex plants I wait till the branches shrivel up a bit, then give just a little to keep them from drying up. As far as summer, water when the soil completely dries out. A way to tell this is , use a wood or bamboo skewer that you would use to make a shishkabob. Slide it into the soil at the edge of the pot. If a little moist soil comes out on it, don't water. If it's powder dry , water thoroughly and monitor the soil in this way. And that's about it! Hope this helps!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks,have a wonderful day!! Peace,Love, Plants ✌💖🌵🏵🌴🌺🪴🌹🌲🌷🌳😃👍
I was gifted a Lactea (sp?) & didn't realize it is a Euphorbia! I see the cylindrical part is planted rather deep. Are these planted deep so plant won't topple over? How can I get my Lactea to grow?? Thanks!😊
If you mean the crested Euphorbia lactea, the cylindrical part is another Euphorbia that the crested lactea is grafted to. Repot every two years, feed during the growing season( tomato fertilizer) at half strength. And that should get it growing!! And don't blurry the stem to deep, as this could cause rot. If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask!!! Thanks for watching Christina!!!! From Morris park in the Ozarks have a great day!!! Peace,Love,Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌹🌴🌷🌿🌸🌻🍀🌺
Hello, can you please tell me something about the red milk tree euphorbia? how do you make it have branches ? i bought one , it has one stalk , no branches
If you are referring to Euphorbia trigona " red form" no, this tree does not grow from a mainstem or central head where branches radiate out and grow from. This plant should branch on its own. Mine is a straight plant not cut and has many branches. But , with this said, if you snip the tip, it will force it to grow branches. You don't need to cut the whole top off. Just the main growing point. And it will branch! Thanks for watching!!! From Morris Park in the Ozarks, have a wonderful weekend!! Peace Love, Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌻🌴💐🌳🌺🌲🥀🪴🌷🌿🌹🌱🏵😃👍
@@morrisparkintheozarks6831 thank you for responding , you are very kind, i posed the questions to many UA-camrs , no one responded, you are the only one , thanks again, by the way , i am jealous of your collection.
Do you repot them as all growing out of the box
Yes, as they grow they are repotted about every two years except the very large Euphorbia abyssinica which hasn't been repotted in quite a few years as this will be quite a task. The largest Euphorbia in the greenhouse, it will have to be suspended from the greenhouse rafters because of its size. But that will be another video!!!😊. From Morris park in the Ozarks, have a great day!!!! Peace,Love,Plants!!!!✌💖🌵🌹🌴🌷🌿🌸🌻🍀🌺
So it must be normal for them to drop their leaves?
Yes succulent Euphorbias that produce leaves are usually deciduous at some point. Weather it is winter cool dry period, or during the driest part of summer may lose their leaves. Quite normal. In my case it's for the cool winter rest period. I let them go dry for the most part and they drop em!! Thanks for watching!! From Morris park in the Ozarks, have a great evening! Peace,Love,Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌺🍀🌷🌿💐🌳🍁🌻
Good to know cuz I thought I was doing something wrong all this time. Thank you!
Diatomaceous earth may fix your ant problem
Might be worth a go, but I think I might need a dump truck load!!! These little ants are everywhere!! In everything!!! Not only in the greenhouse, but under about any object outside , and sometimes in anything hollow , like metal posts, outdoor lights!!! So I might have to buy in BULK!!! Hahaha!!! Thanks for the idea!!! And thanks for watching!!! From Morris park in the Ozarks, have a great evening!!! Peace,Love,Plants & no ants!!!✌💖🌵🌸🌴🌺🌲🌻🌳🌹🌿💐🍀🌷🐜😀👍
Hi Clyde.. if you don't mind may I buy cuttings of your collection... Please...
I would like to do this for you but I'm not set up to take payments. I've not sold my seeds or cuttings before. So I'm not sure how to go about this. And also it would depend on if you are in or outside the USA. If you are inside the USA this will be easier as I don't have anything like PayPal and currency will be the same. Also it depends on where you are at because of shipping cost. I just sent a package to the U.K. to cactimania for a swap of plants and this costs 25.00. Let me know.
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I don't want seed. Just cuttings let me know how much including the postal cost. Then send you a check. I live in Colorado State. I did the same thing at Wade's orchids if I order .
Do you have Instagram or phone number to contact you?
Ok Daisy, I think the best way to contact me would be through email. I don't have Instagram, and don't do social media, Facebook and such. And I find want my phone number in comments section here. So my email is tokaygecko13@gmail.com. I'll be talking to ya!😊
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Are these cactus or succulent don’t laugh at me I’m new to this 😂
Euphorbia ate a diverse family of plants ! No joke. They can be a small annual weed in you yard, or a massive cactiform tree in Africa!! Or your Christmas poinsettia! These plants although some are " cactiform" are in no way related to cactus. The succulent part of the family sometimes grow like cactus because of what's called convergence. When plants grow in similar climate, they grow in similar form. Both cactus and Euphorbias are succulents. But in no way related. If you look at say "South Africa" and " Arizona" they have similar climate. So these plants evolved in the same forms . So three you go. No laughs. From Morris park in the Ozarks, have a great evening!!! Peace,Love,Plants#!!✌💖🌵🌹🌴🌷🌿🌸🌻🍀🌺
Euphorbia ate a diverse family of plants ! No joke. They can be a small annual weed in you yard, or a massive cactiform tree in Africa!! Or your Christmas poinsettia! These plants although some are " cactiform" are in no way related to cactus. The succulent part of the family sometimes grow like cactus because of what's called convergence. When plants grow in similar climate, they grow in similar form. Both cactus and Euphorbias are succulents. But in no way related. If you look at say "South Africa" and " Arizona" they have similar climate. So these plants evolved in the same forms . So three you go. No laughs. From Morris park in the Ozarks, have a great evening!!! Peace,Love,Plants#!!✌💖🌵🌹🌴🌷🌿🌸🌻🍀🌺
Euphorbia ate a diverse family of plants ! No joke. They can be a small annual weed in you yard, or a massive cactiform tree in Africa!! Or your Christmas poinsettia! These plants although some are " cactiform" are in no way related to cactus. The succulent part of the family sometimes grow like cactus because of what's called convergence. When plants grow in similar climate, they grow in similar form. Both cactus and Euphorbias are succulents. But in no way related. If you look at say "South Africa" and " Arizona" they have similar climate. So these plants evolved in the same forms . So three you go. No laughs. From Morris park in the Ozarks, have a great evening!!! Peace,Love,Plants!!!✌💖🌵🌹🌴🌷🌿🌸🌻🍀🌺