Euphorbia persistans bonsai

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Cor, that is one handsome plant! Congratulations for sorting out the picture - you are better at it than me. We have another member on the forum @Meadowlark who, I believe was brought up in the Ozarks, but now has a place in Texas.
Your Euphorbia looks a lot less fierce than the ones I have grown in my flower beds. They oozed sap that gives you a skin rash, makes you itch, and spreads all over the place like a rumour 😖
I suppose the good thing about your plants is that they don't have glochids - like Zigs' cactus do - they attack as well 😣
Is that lava rock you have around your plant? It's quite expensive to buy, and we don't have too many volcanos around here.
 
Tetters said:
Cor, that is one handsome plant! Congratulations for sorting out the picture - you are better at it than me. We have another member on the forum @Meadowlark who, I believe was brought up in the Ozarks, but now has a place in Texas.
Your Euphorbia looks a lot less fierce than the ones I have grown in my flower beds. They oozed sap that gives you a skin rash, makes you itch, and spreads all over the place like a rumour 😖
I suppose the good thing about your plants is that they don't have glochids - like Zigs' cactus do - they attack as well 😣
Is that lava rock you have around your plant? It's quite expensive to buy, and we don't have too many volcanos around here.
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Thanks!!! This plant has toxic sap like most Euphorbias. If left I
On the skin, it may cause blisters or rash. If it gets in the eyes, may cause blindness! It's not ad hot as resinifera, which is the hottest plant on the earth!!! 16 billion on the Scoville scale used to rate hot peppers. I love both Euphorbias and cactus. I love staging plants!!! The rock in not volcanic It is a local limestone, quartz rock that I find at different elevations on some of the gravel roads in the ditches. The many washed them out. Or in many of the creeks. They have fine quartz crystals in the holes. I do have a smaller layer of red lava I bought under the cool rocks just as a base. So the cool rocks are free!! I fin interesting limestone rocks in some of the springs un the area also! My opuntias have glochids also!!! Hahaha!!! I have a nice size bed of opuntia macrohiza and out native cactus ,opuntia humifusa. Full if wicked glochids!!! Love these cause they will take sub zero temps °F !!! Ice and snow encased, and come out full of flowers in the early summer!!! Beautiful!!!
 
🥴Oh no, not another glochid maniac! I said to Zigs one day ''Is it safe to sit just here?'' in the cactus house. He assured me that it was, and that he'd cleaned up already. What do you think I sat on?
If he dares to get hold of one of those evil jumping chollas he will have to move out of here pronto !!

I am more interested in the rocks, as I used to break and polish them many years ago. Some of the volcanic materials were really interesting. There can be a vast difference in the quartz family, and I've used some lovely examples from all over the world.
 
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Tetters said:
🥴Oh no, not another glochid maniac! I said to Zigs one day ''Is it safe to sit just here?'' in the cactus house. He assured me that it was, and that he'd cleaned up already. What do you think I sat on?
If he dares to get hold of one of those evil jumping chollas he will have to move out of here pronto !!

I am more interested in the rocks, as I used to break and polish them many years ago. Some of the volcanic materials were really interesting. There can be a vast difference in the quartz family, and I've used some lovely examples from all over the world.
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That video is just too painful to even watch !!😱
 
When I lived in Tucson Arizona as a kid , this was quite common. If you walk around the Sonoran desert, you will probably get these on your shoes. They are microbarbed. So pulling these out requires a pair of players to rip them out!! This is how they propagate in nature. They stick to animals, and drop off or are scraped or pulled of miles away. Lots of varieties of chollas ( cho ya s) these are very tricky to repot if you keep them.
 
The pronunciation is clearly not the way I thought it was then EK ... is that choy- ass or chow- yas ? If it is not pronounced as it is spelt, I'd like to bet that none of the cactus growers in the UK get it right :unsure: I am sure she said cholla on the video - the way it was written??
Or maybe we should say choya like rhyming with soya?
 
Zigs just came in from the garden, and I asked him if he knew how to pronounce Cholla - he said it's Choya, so I asked with some indignation, why didn't he tell me. His reply was this. If I talk about plants that come from MeHico you tell me to say it properly - I sound the x! It's Mexico in English isn't it?
I'm getting on a bit now, and I find all this a bit confusing.... shame really 😁
 
Tetters said:
Zigs just came in from the garden, and I asked him if he knew how to pronounce Cholla - he said it's Choya, so I asked with some indignation, why didn't he tell me. His reply was this. If I talk about plants that come from MeHico you tell me to say it properly - I sound the x! It's Mexico in English isn't it?
I'm getting on a bit now, and I find all this a bit confusing.... shame really 😁
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I wouldn't stress over it:
You say potato
I say potahto
You say tomahto
I say tomato.!!😂😂
We understand each other, so
Who cares !! 😂
 

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