Exotic spurge, the kinds of which are represented by street and room varieties, attracts by its durability, unpretentiousness and decorative. Its name was given to the plant due to the whitish juice, which stands out on the slices of its branches and leaves. It is poisonous and causes severe burn mucous.
The spurge plant - description
Exotic spurge is a massive indoor flower that is used for decorative landscaping of houses and household plots. In another way it is also called euphorbia, the bush is unpretentious, does not need special care, for a long period does not require a transplant. The plant is succulent - moisture accumulates in its fleshy foliage and stems. Milky juice contains sterol, amino acids, resins, sugar. It is designed to protect crops from pests.
The flower grows in the form of an annual or perennial plant - a bush or a dwarfish tree, looks like a cactus in appearance. The height of the euphorbia varies from a few centimeters to three meters, depending on the variety. In nature, it is common in the tropical and subtropical parts of the globe. Plants in appearance are very different - on many thickened trunks juicy leaves with petioles grow. Some have only straight, ribbed fleshy green ascending stems.
Different species of milkweed have different types of leaf plates in shape: narrow, elliptical, jagged, ovate, entire, and opposite. Some bushes have hairs or thorns resembling spines. Interesting are the corolla in the spurge, the kinds of inflorescences are called cyathias. They consist of several male stamens and one pistil, are located on the leaves. The color of the petals is raspberry, pink, whitish, yellow.
Species of milkweed
Plants from the genus "spurge", whose species number about 2000, differ in the form of foliage, stems, color, size. All of them have a common feature - a dangerous milky juice, which is also curative. Traditional medicine advises using it for the treatment of gout, seizures, scabies. The variety of varieties is great, the plant is used to decorate flower beds, tree trunks. The spurge of the room has species similar to cacti with fleshy stems or represents a branched plant with foliage and flowers. It grows well at home.
Flower Milk Mil
The house flower of Mile is a shrub with spines, it is also called a crown of thorns. The plant has a powerful silver stem with spines and bright green leaves of elliptical elongated form 3 cm long and 1.5 cm wide. This is an ornate-flowering variety, decorated with small coronals that are collected in umbrellas. They are found in purple, salmon, yellow, milky pink. It has a high life expectancy, it grows rapidly.
There are many varieties of Milk Millet, the species differ in the growth rates, in the size of the leaves, in the coloring of the corolla. The most famous: splendens Ursch et Leandri (covered with gray spines, has coral flowers), lutea (differs in covert yellowish leaves). Flowering shrubs can continue throughout the year. This indoor flower requires maximum sunlight, pruning and cool content in winter at a temperature of 13 ° C. It should be planted in fertilized soil.
Flower spur beetlefish
Houseplant spurge beagle is one of the most popular among florists. This is a spectacular bush - from the green ribbed stem depart prominent oval leaves with clear silvery stripes. The height of the trunk reaches 60 cm, from below it is thin, from above thickens and branches. The ribs of the trunk are covered with scales, which makes it look fimbriated. To the flower looked beautiful, the trunk is deeply rooted in a tall pot. In the room a white-bush shrub blooms with small white stamens, then gives a plentiful sowing, which quickly sprouts around the trunk.
Spurge cypress
Popular cypress spurge is a branching indoor flower, which reaches a height of 30 cm. It has upright branches, entirely covered with narrow needle-shaped leaves. On the tops of the shoots are bright yellow flowers, which look beautiful against the lacy greenery. With proper care, this bush looks like a fluffy ball. The plant is grown both at home and in the garden, where it reaches a height of 1.5 m. It is drought-resistant and winter-hardy, but during the cold weather it needs shelter. This is one of the most unpretentious species.
Euphorbia multicolor
Decorative Euphorbia multicolor - a bright sun among the greenery of plantings. It looks bright, unusual and immediately catches the eye in the garden. His stems grow straight, they are strewn with oblong opposite sheets. Plates look juicy and bright, followed by shades of light green, lemon, golden, yellow, which adds extra charm to the bush. The plant has a globular shape up to 70 cm in height. During the flowering period above the upper leaves flowers of yellow-lemon color rise. They are gathered in beautiful umbrellas. The culture is of many years, blossoming begins in 2-3 years.
Euphorbia myrtle
Has spurge both indoor species and garden. Myrtolist - one of the decorative varieties for the infield, its shoots beautifully spread along the ground. Leaves of a clear diamond-shaped form have a bluish tinge, densely, spiralingly planted on the stalk and in beauty nothing inferior to flowers. It is a low perennial, reaches a height of 25 cm, foliage on it remains in winter. Flowers have a bright greenish-straw color and a pleasant aroma, blossom in May-June. The plant grows well in the penumbra and in the sun, beautifully combined with stones in decorative areas.
Euphorbia amygdala
It is a low shrub up to 60 cm high with bright green leaves. Euphorbia almond-like is known as Purpurea, it has erect stems, the tops of which are pleasing with bouquets of unusual yellow-green color from April to July. Inflorescences without petals, have the form of a bell-shaped glass, inside which nectaries stand on legs. Thick branches with crowns on the tops gently swing from the wind, creating the illusion of a sea wave. This grade is suitable for southern regions, does not stand the temperature below -15 ° C, loves the sun, sometimes it is used as a home.
Euphorbia capitate
Low-headed capitate spurge is not used as a house flower, it is popular in the garden. Grows in small (5-10 cm) crooks, which on the ground form a lush mat. The culture blossoms in June-July with yellow or orange buds. The plant has thin prone shoots, densely covered with almond-shaped leaves, which quickly spread along the ground. The head variety is an aggressive plant that quickly displaces other crops from the site. In one place it grows very long, it is used as a decorative ground cover.
Euphorbia miscellaneous
This semi-shrub plant is up to 90 cm high. It has large leaves, until the fall the crop looks like an ordinary pale green flower. This spurge among the indoor species is considered very popular due to the colorful coloration that adorns the bush in August-September. In the velvety season, its upper leaves acquire a bright purple color, and the plant looks very colorful. The advantage of the flower is its unpretentiousness to weather conditions.
Spurge trihedral
This perennial, at home grows up to 3 m in height. Indoor plant triangular spurge looks like a cactus, has a ribbed fleshy and powerful stalk with whitish strokes. Its jagged ribs are covered with spines on the edges and small oval leaves. If the plant is plucked, it will bush and form a beautiful shape. Euphorbia, whose species are akin to cacti, well tolerates dry air and lack of watering. Overabundance of moisture can lead to decay of the plant. Blossoms trihedron rarely, but it multiplies easily by cuttings.
Flowers spurge Tirucalli
The tall plant spurge Tirucalli is a succulent tree, which can reach 5 m in height. It has smooth cylindrical bright green rod-shaped branches 5-7 mm thick with multiple small oblong leafless processes. They quickly disappear and stems remain on their stems from their presence. The plant is strongly bushy, abundantly blooms with bright yellow buds, it looks decorative. This tree is very poisonous, its juice is used to get rid of warts.
Flower spurge edged
The plant of this species is one of the most loved by gardeners. The flower of the spurge (mountain snow) bordered with its name was due to the beautiful pointed leaves, which during the flowering of the bush acquire a delicate white color along the edges with a green stripe in the middle of the plate. Not the top of the shoots are dairy neat flowers. For unusual ornamentality, the plant is also called a "bride". With a lot of planting, the flowerbed looks like it is covered with snow. The bush well branches and by the end of the season it becomes very lush. It blossoms from June until the frost.
Home flowers spurge - care
If the house needs a beautiful unpretentious flower, you can safely buy spurge, it attracts a variety of varieties and ease of care. Content rules:
- Lighting. Euphorbia is a photophilic culture, it is better to place pots on a windowsill, in summer you can transfer them to a balcony. A lot of sunshine will provide the plant with a lush crown and beautiful flowering. In winter euphorbia needs to be lighted up, otherwise it will stretch and lose its beauty.
- Humidity. Euphorbia - an unpretentious flower, room care requires sprinkling it with warm water once a month.
- Watering. Euphorbia, whose species are succulent, does not require frequent irrigation. Moisten the plant with abundantly warm water, but only after the top layer dries well. In winter, watering is greatly reduced. The peculiarity of culture is that it tolerates a shortage of moisture calmly, and with its overabundance may die.
- Top dressing. It is carried out in winter and summer before flowering. Specialized mixtures for cacti are suitable for fertilization . During flowering, the plant does not feed.
- Pruning. For all shrub species, thinning of branches is useful. Crop the plants and pinch the tops in the spring, this will make the shrub more compact. After flowering, you can remove the sprouting shoots and use them for reproduction. When working, it is important not to forget to put on gloves, because the juice of the flower is toxic.
- Transfer. A plant does not like it if it is often disturbed. The transplant is carried out once in 3-4 years in the spring before growing, the earth mixture comes from a store for succulent crops. On the bottom of the vessel is placed drainage , the capacity should be taken at 2 cm more than the previous one.
- Reproduction. You can increase the shrub population in four ways:
- seeds;
- propagation of the stem;
- cuttings of leaves;
- division of the bush.
When propagating by branches a piece of up to 12 cm in length is placed in water so that a film forms on the cut. Then the stalk can be planted in the ground. Also, the plant multiplies and with the help of leaves. If the bush is blooming, you can wait for the seeds and plant them in the soil under the film, from them will appear sprouts. Division of the bush is the simplest kind of reproduction, it is used during the transplant.