A Gardeners Forum Forums Gardening Reference Gardening in 2007 Awesome but mysterious!! Help identify..

Hi ALL...
I have this awesomely wonderful-to-watch plant that I am starting to need to find out how to control. It is, as it turns out, quite pernicious (find starts growing far from the mother plant!) But I LOVE the drama of this plant.

Let's see if I remember how to post a photo..


This is March picture! It is dramatic for months before and after this...
It bleeds white, and profusely. I think it's sticky sap. (I try to avoid touching it!!)

I need to know if my containment (usually a HARD cut back in fall or late winter (I blew it this year, so I'm in for an adventure) is the best way to tend it. Just how hard CAN I cut it back? And what time of the year is best.??

AND: What IS it!? (Okay, next time I WILL save the tag!!!!)

THANKS SO MUCH for you help!
TF

That's some type of a Euphorbia I think....

Some people can have a reaction to that sap...

Thanks Weezie...
I just searched http://www.noble.org/webapps/plantimagegallery/ForbsSearch.aspx
for an image and can't find anything. But when you said it, I realized that someone else told me the same... based on the white sap.

Maybe I can find something somewhere else. (I really am swearing to never throw tags out again! This is SIlly!) :p

I know how you feel..
When I started gardening my wee~one went behind me
and started pulling out the tags..
I found them in a patch of his own..
he'd only planted the tags..
I couldn't be mad,
but that's how I started surfin' the internet myself!!!

Weezie.. There's a short story in that!! tf

Terraflora I may have found your euphoria spruge species if this isn't it there are a few more here you can look thru!

http://www.virtualplanttags.com/vpt.asp?co=410087&pID=40685&cID=11&r=GIYP

or..

http://bayimages.net/plants/shrubs/i749.html

http://toptropicals.com/catalog/uid/Euphorbia_characias.htm

This next one is a galleries of euphorbia's you may see what you have there!
http://www.toptropicals.com/pics/garden/m1/euph_gallery.htm

Angelblossom..
THANKS! I see my plant in the virtualplanttags link -- Euphorbia characias 'Lambrook Gold'

Now off I go to study it's care!
THANKS SOOO much!!

TF

YAYYYYYYYYY! Diane got it...
I knew it was a Euphorbia,
but what brand/species it was,
I was not sure...

Terraflora ~~ Your sooo welcome!! Glad I could help!

even though this has been identified, i'm moving it to mysteries...