![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The cyathia, the typical inflorescences of the Euphorbiaceae, grouped in cymes at the extremities of the branches, are formed by a female flower reduced to a pistil, that is, without calyx and corolla, as well as the male flowers surrounding it, reduced to a stamen, enclosed by a particularly shaped involucre, red or purple pink, 0,8-1,5 cm long the flowers, rich of nectar, are pollinated by the hummingbirds. The leaves, sessile or on a short petiole, are simple, alternate, distichous, coriaceous, slightly fleshy, oblong to elliptic-ovate with slightly waved borders and keeled below, 6-10 cm long and 2-4 cm broad. (1753) is an unarmed evergreen perennial species with sinuous, succulent, milky cylindrical stems, green in the youngest part, greyish in the oldest one, ramified at the base, 0,4-2 m long. The genus gets its name from Euphorbus, personal physician of Juba II (52 BC – 23 AD), King of Numibia, who dedicated to the king these plants in a work where it described its medicinal virtues the name of the species is the combination of Tithymalus and of the Greek suffix “-οειδής” (-oeidés), from “εἶδος” (êidos) = shape, look, therefore similar to the genus Tithymalus.Ĭommon names: bird cactus, Christmas candle, devil’s backbone, Japanese poinsettia, Jewbush, redbird cactus, redbird flower, gibbo cactus, slipper flower, slipper plant, zigzag plant (English) echine du diable, herbe à cors, pantouflier (French) dois amores, dois-irmãos, picão, sapatinho-do-diablo, planta-zique-zaque, sapatinho-do-judeu, sapatinho-dos-jardins, (Portuguese-Brazil) cacto cardenal, cacto zapatilla, dictamo real, gallito colorado, ipecacuana, itamo real, pie de niño, pie de santo, zapatilla del diablo, zapatito de la Virgen, zapatito rojo (Spanish) Teufelsrückgrat (German). ZIGZAG PLANT FLOWER FULLThe species is native to Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil (Acre, Amazonas, Amapá, Espirito Santo, Minas Gerais, Pará, Rio de Janeiro, Roraima, Rondônia, São Paulo, Tocantins and Trindade), Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Dutch Antilles, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Panama, Puerto Rico, Surinam, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA (Florida), Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles and Windward Islands, where it grows in the thickets and dry deciduous forests or on stony and rocky soils in full sun, often close to the sea. In Euphorbia tithymaloides the cyathia are protected by a red or purple pink involucre © Giuseppe Mazza ![]()
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