Euphorbia meloformis
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Read about Euphorbia meloformis in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Euphorbia meloformis, Ait. Melon Spurge. Fig. 1446. Globose or pyriform, 3-5 in. thick, deeply 8-10-ribbed; ribs obscurely tuberculate on the almost acute angles; sides transversely dark and light green-striped, or wrinkled when old: Lvs. few and small: fls. at the depressed apex; the old forked branches of the infl. sub-persistent but not spinose. A few small branches similar to the main st. present. S. Afr. L.B.C. 5:436. A.G. 11:463.—A curious and rare plant, often mistaken for a cactus and showing extreme reduction in xerophytic euphorbias as Mammillaria does for the cacti. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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