Species Euphorbia heptagona
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Etymology of Euphorbia:
Gk. eu- = well; phorbe = pasture or fodder; probably after Euphorbus, Greek physician to Juba II, King of Mauretania. Juba was educated in Rome and married the daughter of Antony and Cleopatra. He was apparently interested in botany and had written about an African cactus-like plant from the slopes of Mount Atlas, which he had found or knew about, which was used as a powerful laxative. That plant may have been Euphorbia resinifera, and like all Euphorbias had a latexy exudate (milky emulsion from certain plants). Euphorbus had a brother named Antonius Musa who was the physician to Augustus Caesar in Rome. When Juba heard that Caesar had honoured his physician with a statue, he decided to honour his own physician by naming the plant he had written about after him.
Etymology of heptagona:
From the Latin hepta meaning 'seven' and gona meaning 'angled'
Scientific name:
Euphorbia heptagona L.
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Synonym status:
Monoecious, much-branched spinescent shrublet, 20--100 cm; branches cylindrical, with obscure tubercles arranged in 6--8 angles, 15--30 mm diam., erect, mostly covered with stout thorns, spinescent peduncles 8--60 mm long. Leaves 1--2 mm long, deciduous. Cyathia solitary, 3--5 mm diam., glands entire, green to red. June--Nov. Karroid scrub on stony north-facing slopes, KM, LB, SE (W Karoo to E Cape).
Observations of Taxon
Euphorbia heptagona
Name of observer:
Alma Möller & Rolf Becker (David)
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Euphorbia heptagona
Name of observer:
Pauline Bohnen (David)
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Euphorbia heptagona
Name of observer:
Doreen Court (Mr.Drimia)
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Collection:
Euphorbia heptagona
Name of observer:
Doreen Court (Mr.Drimia)
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Date observed unknown
Collection:
Euphorbia heptagona
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
05/10/2019 - 8:52am