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Scientific Name: | Euphorbia characias |
Common Name: | Mediterranean spurge |
Family Name: | Euphorbiaceae |
Origin: | Europe |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C) |
Plant Type: | Broadleaf evergreen |
Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width) |
Habit: | Dense, Spreading, Stiffly upright |
Form: | Mounded, Oval - horizontal |
Texture: | Medium - fine |
Landscape Uses: | Cut flower or foliage, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Specimen plant, Spring interest |
Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
Leaves: | Simple, Spiraled, Succulent, Glabrous, Linear, Entire |
Flowers: | Cyathium, Yellow, Green, Apr-May |
Fruit: | Schizocarp, Green, Brown |
Key ID Features: | |
Groups of thick basal stems, when broken, plant exudes white sap that may irritates skin; leaves whorled, linear, grey-green, smell like coffee; inflorescence large yellow-green rises above on tall stalks. |