Euphorbia heterophylla L. var. cyathophora (Murr.) Boiss.
The species Euphorbia heterophylla is an annual with ovate, sometimes variegated leaves and small flowers surrounded with scarlet bracts. To 90cm. [RHSD, Hortus]. The variety cyathophora, described nearly 100 years before the type, varies from the type ‘not only in its mostly pandurate [fiddle-shaped] leaves (the floral ones commonly purplish- or reddish-splotched) but in its more rounded, ecarinate [keelless] seeds’. [Annals of the Missouri Botanic Garden vol.25 p.72/1938].
Horticultural & Botanical History
No data.
History at Camden Park
Seed order to Hurst and McMullen, Seedsmen and Florists of London, on 8th April 1846. [MP A2933-1, p.132]. There is no record of seed being received or of this plant growing in the gardens.
Notes
Published Feb 24, 2009 - 05:17 PM | Last updated Jul 18, 2010 - 03:30 PM
| Family | Euphorbiaceae |
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| Category | |
| Region of origin | Mexico |
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| Common Name | Painted Spurge, Dwarf Poinsettia |
| Name in the Camden Park Record | Euphorbia cyathophora |
| Confidence level | high |
