Pedilanthus

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Pedilanthus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Pedilanthus (Greek, shoe-flower). Euphorbiaceae. Slipper Plant. Bird Cactus. Redbird Cactus. Slipper Spurge. Jew Bush. Low tender cactus-like shrubs, grown in collections of succulents. Stems thick and fleshy, juice milky: lvs. alternate, often rudimentary, the midrib thickened and often keeled below: infl. of terminal or axillary cymes; the fl. and fr. characters as in Euphorbia, but the involucre with a deep fissure and a short spur on the upper side, the spur containing the glands.—About 30 species in Trop. Amer. Prop, and cult, similar to the succulent euphorbias. See Millspaugh in Field Museum Nat. Hist., Publication 172,1913, for a revision of the species. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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