Mazhar Botanic Garden

Euphorbia tithymaloides L.

Red slipper spurge

Sample code: EGY-MBG-001002
Common name: Red slipper spurge
English name: Redbird flower, Zig-zag plant
Arabic name: بيدولانسس
Native: Mexico to Tropical America
Country: Mexico Tropical america
(PGR): Common

Perennial succulent, shrub grow to 15-2 m tall stem round, green, zig zag shape leaves sessile, glabrous, ovate, acuminate, entire edges The inflorescence is a apical or axillary dichotomous congested cyme near the stem's tip Each cyathia (flower structures containing separate male and female parts) is supported by a peduncle 3-8 mm long, red, green below and enclosed in bright red involucral, bracts, ovate and irregularly acuminate in shape  4-12 mm long, 2-5 mm wide Cyathia, bilaterally symmetrical, scentless, tube red green below, 7-15 mm long Nectar glands 4 Style up to 12 mm long
long, thin tube

Ornamental succulent shrub. medicinal

Pedilanthus tithymaloides (L) Poit

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Texture: Adaptable Coastal Alluvial Soils Enriched soil Heavy clay Sandy
Fertility: High
Drainage: Moderately well drained
Topography: Undulating
Salinity: Intermediated
Water Sources: Moderate Water
Climates: Subtropics Tropical
Lights: Full sun Light shade
Propagation: Cuttings
Flowering time: Spring - early summer
Zone: 8 : 10
pH range: 5.5 - 7.0

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