Euphorbia trigona 'Red'

Cyclops · Post by **Cyclops** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 4:53 am

This is a plant I picked up recently, a Euphorbia trigona 'Red' or E. trigona ssp red, not sure on the proper nomenclature on this one.

It contains a white sap that can be irritable, but also it looks really cool close up!
First shot,from above and at lifesize(so about 22mm across) showing the morphology of the plant that gives it the name trigona.

10D + 100mm macro lens
Tripod
Remote release with mirror lock up
8 and 10 seconds respectively at f22

lauriek · Post by **lauriek** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 4:58 am

Interesting, I knew Euphorbia was a very large genus (from Wikipedia: "Euphorbia is one of the most diverse genera in the plant kingdom.") but this is completely different to the few euphorbia's we own, this looks like a cactus, I didn't realise they were _that_ diverse!

Cyclops · Post by **Cyclops** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 5:48 am

lauriek wrote:Interesting, I knew Euphorbia was a very large genus (from Wikipedia: "Euphorbia is one of the most diverse genera in the plant kingdom.") but this is completely different to the few euphorbia's we own, this looks like a cactus, I didn't realise they were _that_ diverse!

Oh yea, most of the ones sold do look like cacti.
This is what the whole thing looks like:

But dont forget the Poinsettia we see at christmas is a Euphorbia too-incredibly diverese group of plants!