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Crown-of-Thorns

Euphorbia milli

Description:

The flowers are more oval when they mature. This is an early stage in the blooming. Then a later stage and the final stage. Then a picture of the main stem. Quite thorny.

Habitat:

This plant is used as a barrier plant and grows in the highlands here. Through the dry season and wet season it thrives.

Notes:

This is a thorn bush flower. 4 X 16 blooms. Native to Madagascar.

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4 Comments

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 13 years ago

Superb pics..Cactus family flowers are always amazing and observed at macro level...they are very fantastic...

LarsKorb
LarsKorb 13 years ago

unbelievable species...looks like industrial-made...

JosephBullock
JosephBullock 13 years ago

I looked Thorn Flowers and found a website in Florida that supplied the I.D. The Internet is so helpful.

Nadi88
Nadi88 13 years ago

Looks amazing! Do you have a guess for a family?

JosephBullock
Spotted by
JosephBullock

Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar

Spotted on Nov 6, 2010
Submitted on Apr 25, 2011

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