#spurge

[girlfriendline]

when your alternate finally gets his captain back 🥹.

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

[kristo-flowers]

Volcanic landscape with Canary island spurge and Teide mountain in Tenerife.

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[faguscarolinensis]

Euphorbia characias / Mediterranean Spurge at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Tuesday 30 April 2024

In this front garden the variegated foliage and flowers of Euphorbia characias 'Silver Swan' (variegated spurge) were creating a display. This shrubby, evergreen perennial plant, has maroon-flushed dark stems that are clothed in grey-green leaves.

Jill Raggett

[blogbirdfeather]

Mediterranean Spurge - Trovisco-macho (Euphorbia characias)

Sintra/Portugal (11/01/2024)

[Nikon P900; 50mm with flash; 1/30s; F6,3; 140 ISO]

[pharaohgargamel]

Доброе утро всем!

Счастливого и солнечного мирного дня!✨😊😺

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Good morning everybody!

Have a happy and sunny peaceful day!✨😊😺

[crudlynaturephotos]

[falseandrealultravival]

Today's Haiku with Picture 570

Geometry

I wonder if you master it

Spurge

幾何学を

極めたるかな

トウダイグサ

(2023.04.18)

[dansnaturepictures]

06/03/2024-Silver-sided Sector spider, post sunset sky, blossom and Collared Dove today, Great Crested Grebe and Canada Geese at Lakeside Country Park, Mediterranean Gulls at Hayling Island and sky at Testwood Lakes in recent days and phone photos of spurge at Winchester Cathedral and beautiful frosted red deadnettle this morning. Peregrine, Sparrowhawk, Wren, Great Tit and hyacinth were great to see in Winchester too with Cetti's Warbler heard by the River Itchen.

[girlfriendline]

cherish your goalie 🤗

wild @ oilers || 21.11.24

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

Spurge. Such a distinctive smell.

[drhoz]

#1958 - Euphorbia glauca - Shore Spurge

It was growing right next to the Mirror Bush. I’m glad @purrdence​ spotted it because if she’d left it a few more years it might be very difficult to find. New Zealand’s only native Euphorbia, which is surprising since the genus has a worldwide distribution and a huge number of species - over 2000.

AKA sea spurge, waiu-atua, waiū-o-Kahukura, and sand milkweed.  Named for thin powdery bloom on the leaves, and Euphorbus, a Greek physician who served King Juba of Numidia in 12BC. Juba suppsedly named a cactus to honour of Euphorbus (rather unlikely to be a cactus in that part of the world - most likely one of the spiny, cactus-like Spurges) and later Linnaeus named the entire genus after the physician.

A perennial herb with multiple erect stems up to 1m tall, and underground rhizomes. Each flower, produced from October to February, is surrounded by a deep red cup-like structure with purple glands. Fruit, as here, occur from December to May. As with other Euphorbia, the sap a corrosive milky juice. 

Endemic to New Zealand and the Chatham Island, growing on coastal cliffs, banks and talus slopes, sand dunes and rocky lakeshore scarps.

Cattle, sheep, pigs and possums are threats throughout the species range, mainly through browsing and trampling. Competition from taller weedy plants is significant. Coastal development such as road widening, and erosion, are further threats to most populations. Some populations on the West Coast of the South Island appear to have succumbed to a fungal disease.

[faguscarolinensis]

Euphorbia rigida / Gopher Spurge at the JC Raulston Arboretum at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Friday 2 August 2024

This Euphorbia sp. (spurge) was thriving in a shady location and lighting up the area with clusters of bright yellow bracts. This could be Euphorbia schillingii which is a robust herbaceous perennial having deep green leaves with a conspicuous white strip for the mid-rib.

Jill Raggett

[blogbirdfeather]

Mediterranean Spurge - Trovisco-macho (Euphorbia characias)

Sintra/Portugal (23/11/2023)

[Nikon D850; AF 105mm Micro-Nikkor F2,8 with Circular Flash Nissin  MF 18; 1/250s; F16; 400 ISO]