Sarcostemma

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Sarcostemma in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Sarcostemma (name refers to the fleshy corona). Asclepiadaceae. A few small-fld. more or less succulent leafless trailing or twining shrubs of the dry parts of tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World, to which N. E. Brown refers a plant long known as a Euphorbia. Fls. greenish, yellowish, or white, in sessile terminal or lateral umbels; corona double, the outer part ring-like or cup-shaped and truncate or shortly lobed, the inner part of 5 fleshy erect lobes; pollen-masses solitary in each anther-cell, pendulous. S. viminale, R. Br. (Tithymalus pendulus, Haw. Euphorbia pendula, Link), grows in Trop. Afr.: trailing, twining, or bush-like, woody below, the lvs. sometimes represented by minute ovate bracts: corolla rotate or somewhat campanulate, greenish white or sulfur-colored. S. Brunonianum, Wight & Arn., of India, has yellow fls. The sarcostemmas require the treatment given ceropegias and similar succulents. ^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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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