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Euphorbia splendens is another winter bloomer, and may be treated as the succulents, with more heat and water. It will do well in living-rooms, and bears some flowers all the year. It bears rough treatment well, and is propagated by cuttings from the young growth, which root with the greatest ease.

Euphorbia splendens, Bojer. Crown Of Thorns. Fig. 1442. Ste. 3-4 ft. long, ½-1 in. thick, somewhat climbing, covered with stout spines about an inch long: Lvs. few, on the young growth, obovate to oblong-spatulate, thin, bright green, 1-2 in. long: cyathia in long-peduncled dichotomous cymes, near the ends of the branches, each closely subtended by 2 broadly ovate bright red bracts. Madagascar. Flowering all the year but mostly in winter. B.M.2902. L.B.C. 18:1713. V. 2, p. 74: 14, p. 16. G.C. II. 19:816 (as E. jacquiniaeflora).—Coolhouse plant. The red bracts in the green Lvs. on the sinuous spiny sts. are very striking. It can be trained into ornamental forms. The seedlings have larger sts. and Lvs. and double spines, a smaller one below each of the ordinary ones.

 

In tropical and subtropical regions many of the treelike or succulent euphorbias make fine outdoor ornamentals. The poinsettia is a magnificent landscape ornament in California, West Indies and so on. In Southern California the poinsettia is propagated by sticking canes 3 feet long in the ground from April on, these growing and blooming, often profusely, the first season. In the West Indies and Florida, some of the thorny tree-like forms, especially E. lactea, are grown as hedges, their thick, erect thorny branches making an almost impenetrable barrier. This and other species are grown also as specimen plants. See Succulents.

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