FREE: 10ct. Euphorbia pentagona Pincushion Euphorbia Seeds, Reaches More Than 2 Meter

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Euphorbia pentagona is a medium-green Euphorbia; starts off as having a pentagonal prism shape where each vertex is extruded outwards, and each side is a mild concavity, along the height of the euphorb. Spines, red in color when fresh, exit the body along each extrusion. Native to south africa. in its natural habitat it can reach more than 2 meters height. As the spines age, they tend to lose their color. The cross-sectional polygonal shape can gain extra vertexes as new branches grow from the sides. Often branches grow from where a spine once was.

Description: A compact perennial cactus-like shrub with prominent ribs that freely branches above and can grow 2,5- 3 m tall.
Stem: Thin columnar, erect, rebranching often in whorls, 1-4 cm thick, bright glossy green or dark green turning grey with age.
Ribs: 5-6, deeply grooved between, whit shallow tubercles.
Spines: The solitary “spines” are sterile dry peduncles up to 1,5 cm long, each with 2-3 tiny bracts, they are pinkish and finally grey.
Leaves: Up to 4 mm long, liner and early deciduous.
Flowers: The buff-lavender to purplish cyathia are small ( approx 4 mm in diameter) and borne at the branch tips. The are solitary or in 2-3 rayed cymes, peduncles short, often persistent. Nectar glands elliptic, separate.
Fruits: Subglobose, approx 6 mm in diameter, subsessile.


EUPHORBIA PENTAGONA CARE
Euphorbia pentagona does best, if grown on a bright and sunny place the year round. if placed in the garden during summer, please make sure that rainwater can easily flow out of the pot. sitting in water will cause rot.

It grows well in a good drained mineral potting substrate.
A mix of potting soil, seramis (lay granulate), pumice and coarse sand (1:1:1:1).