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A woody shrub-like spineless Euphorbia from southern Madagascar, which forms a silver-barked trunk and full crown of branches with narrow dark green/gray leaves.

Most amazing is the size of the caudex it ultimately makes, a gourd-like, woody main root up to 6 inches thick which can be elevated above the soil. Makes a great succulent bonsai subject.

*We just lifted all of these on the offering and they look fantastic! We are giving these away at this price!

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A procumbent, shrub-like Euphorbia with a surprisingly ample caudex. The plant is a low grower with pencil thick branches bearing tiny spines. When in leaf, the foliage is oblong, with wavy margins and slightly pubescent. The cyathea vary from chartreuse to tan or pinkish-red. The caudex will form underground but can be elevated above the soil. It gets quite thick, to about 2 inches in time. Native to the area of Tongobory in southeastern Madagascar.

A species of Northwestern Madagascar, dwelling along a limestone escarpment in the region of Ankarana. Though this rare species is most often listed as a caudiciform, it is actually an un-branched stem-succulent with a somewhat stout stem. Clusters of showy, pinkish and green flowers precede a crown of pubescent leaves. Seed grown plants.

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Spontaneous or accidental Euphorbia hybrids that appear as ‘weeds’ on our benches. Variable in size, shape and character, but are all nice. Most have Euphorbia milii as one parent and have spiny, branching stems, narrow to rounded leaves and red to orange or green flowers. Many form thick, gnarled trunks desirable for bonsai culture, and there have been some caudiciforms among them. No two alike.

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An interesting and rather rare species from Madagascar, with a tall and straight trunk bearing rows of sharp but short spines. The foliage is restricted to the top of the plant where it grows in a crown of wide green leaves, resembling a little palm.

Greenish flowers are borne on a cluster of compound branches at the crown. Younger specimens tend to be unbranched but branching does occur with maturity.

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A highly decorative and unusual small geophyte from Madagascar. Twisted stems covered with prominent leaf scars bear thick leaves with wavy margins, colored in shades of green, brown and copper. A substantial caudex will form with time.

Our plant are seed grown from a controlled pollination.

A spiny, upright growing shrub with many branches, each with rows of spines, borne in clusters. The deciduous foliage is somewhat tomentose and is found at the tops of the stems only, the cyathia are red. Native to coastal regions of north-eastern Madagascar in the department of Antsiranana in the Iharana district, after which it is named. The terrain is reportedly granitic rocks and soils.

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A cute little caudiciform species from Madagascar. In nature it forms an elongate, subterranean tuber/caudex which in cultivation is normally kept elevated above the soil line. The foliage is attractive, large oblong leaves are deep green with pale green to whitish mottled patterns down both sides of the midrib. The leaf undersides are purplish. Flowers are pale tan to pinkish. An easy species to grow that enjoys partial shade and limited watering, especially in winter.

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A rare plant restricted to the slopes of Montagne des Francais, in Diego Suarez, northern Madagascar. A small, branching, shrubby species with thick, five sided stems to about a foot tall. The stem is marked by old leaf scars, with mottled green and brown bark and clusters of fine spines. Flowers are yellow and leaves, which emerge after flowering, are ‘paddle shaped’ and deep green.

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From the southern tip of Madagascar, this little miniature develops a caudex that can reach 4 inches across. The plant stays short to about 8 inches tall, with a greenish-pink cyathia. Described by Rauh and Petignat in 1996. An unusual and rare miniature Madagascan Euphorbia.

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A rare species of the sandy deciduous and thorn forests of western Madagascar. A shrub with thin branches that can reach three feet tall and wide in nature. The slender branches bear narrow, inch-long, deciduous leaves that leave a rigid spine (stipule) after the leaves fall. A napiform (beet shaped) taproot can be elevated to expose the top portion, making this plant appealing to the caudex-plant lover. The flowers on this species are slender, with red and yellow cyathophylls which do not spread open at anthesis, leaving the flowers to resemble those of Pedilanthus. This species likes well draining soil, warm temps and bright light for good growth.

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A rare species of Northern Madagascar that is closely related to E. ankarensis but is seen to be more compact and with glabrous leaves in most adult plant. We note that most seedlings are very pubescent. An upright grower with a thick trunk-like caudex, crowned by oblong-lanceolate leaves, preceded by flowers at the apex. The cyathea are pinkish. Grow bright, out of direct sun.

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A colorful Madagascan species with stiff, multicolored leaves on contorted stems.  A substantial caudex will form in time and can reach 12 inches across.  

This choice plant was only discovered in 1991 by Prof. Dr. Werner Rauh in the Western Highlands.

From Madagascar, this Euphorbia rarely branches and instead, differs from the standard perrieri by developing a caudex with a spiny spiraling trunk and oblong-lanceloate deciduous leaves. We've noticed interesting leaf scars on the trunk after defoliating. Will most likely be a new subspecies. 

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This is a new but as yet taxonomically undescribed species from Tanzania. Collected by Mike Massara, it is a tall shrub, at least in our collection, with small, deciduous leaves. It apparently forms a caudex in time. Not much information for sure, but then it's all that we know.

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