#spurge

[girlfriendline]

when your alternate finally gets his captain back 🥹.

[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

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

Spurge. Such a distinctive smell.

[tblueger]

she was real to ME

[flowerishness]

Euphorbia characias (var. wulfenii) (Mediterranean spurge)

Green flowers

Flowering plants evolved about 140 million years ago but for the first forty million, they weren’t particularly colorful. Their basic contract with insects was the same, you help us with seed production and we’ll give you food (pollen and nectar) in return. But then the bees evolved and, all of sudden, flowering plants became a lot more beautiful. This is because bees have much better color vision than most insects. Bees are sometimes described as wasps that became strictly vegetarian.

Maybe, the Mediterranean spurge didn’t get the memo - it has green flowers! All true petals developed from conventional leaves anyway but this spurge seems to have got stuck, half way through the process. What appear to be green, cuplike petals are just highly specialized leaves (bracts) but bees are still attracted to it’s flowers. In addition to almost full-color vision, bees are very good with edges, and they can see this flower’s shape just fine.

[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!✨😊😺

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

Succulents Part 8--Portulaca, Euphorbia, and Spergularia

Succulents are a wide variety of plants, spanning multiple orders. Some have succulent leaves while others have succulent stems. Cactuses are succulents, but not all succulents are cactuses. Defining what exactly makes a succulent is a little tricky. For example, cabbage leaves are considered by some to be succulent, but tulip and onion leaves apparently aren't.

All photos mine. Unedited except for the fourth one down on the left, which was taken in RAW format and edited from there to bring out the colour while maintaining the contrast of light and shadow.

There are Portulaca cultivars that are popular in gardens as annuals. But the weed known as purslane (second photo down on the right) is a Portulaca species with a nearly global native range. It's edible (has a mild salty taste), makes a nice ground cover in my opinion, and is unfairly maligned.

But don't mistake it for Euphorbia (spurge)! Because that is poisonous. Some cultivars look rather nice in the garden, though. One tell is that Euphorbia species will leek a milky sap if you cut it whereas purslane will not.

Spergularia (sea spurrey, sand spurrey, etc.) have very tiny pink flowers that you might notice if you look down on the grass from time to time if your city doesn't use pesticides. They are edible but I haven't tried them.

[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)

[faguscarolinensis]

Euphorbia lactea 'White Ghost' / 'White Ghost' Milk Tree at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[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]

🥹.

[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

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

The spurge emerges

[tblueger]

who let this toddler on the ice !!!!!!

[crudlynaturephotos]