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This is probably one of the two most commonly grown large Euphorbias in southern California (Euphorbia ingens being the more common one)... it is a great specimen plant, but not a cold hardy one (see shot of 'burned plant below)... mild frosts don't hurt it much, but temp drops into the mid 20s do it some serious damage. Euphorbia ingens is actually no more hardy, though.
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These are top notch ornamental's. They rate near the top as large or over sized potted plants. They can grow forever in them and still allow other plants to do well in the same planter.
Stan wrote:Hey! first flowering. Only took about 13-15 years!
I know absolutely nothing about the blooming habits of this plant. Now that it has flowered for the first time, will flowering be a yearly event, or will you need to wait another decade and a half for it to flower again? Or does it just depend on the correct alignment of the cosmic forces?
Stan wrote:Hey! first flowering. Only took about 13-15 years!
I know absolutely nothing about the blooming habits of this plant. Now that it has flowered for the first time, will flowering be a yearly event, or will you need to wait another decade and a half for it to flower again? Or does it just depend on the correct alignment of the cosmic forces?
lol,You might be on to something. It was kind of mystical...
Somehow the variegated Euphorbia ammak loves the So CA climate. I see more in my neighborhood every day. I have 3 six-footers, and they seem to grow at least a foot a year. One of the easiest & showiest xeric plants around.
I have a personal list of things that grow fine here..but wont bloom,or very rarely. Warm enough to grow..but blooms harder to come by with heat needy plants. Why I am so happy with Mango tree's. Just enough for them to blooms and fruit. Still waiting for Pseudobombax,Pachypodiums not half man ( that blooms,go figure)Agave attenuata and a few more...
Schefflera arboricola? It can and does reach tree size here. Never seen a single one bloom. Not one. I've seen photo's of them in 6" pots in soucal or the Canary Islands..in bloom. Funny thing is - the more tender S.dizzygothica? Does bloom. Mine does every year now.
Now in 2020. It's probably over 16-18 years now since I put it in ground. Not the fastest being it has had to deal with tree shade..but passable nice looking.
I had to prune off large lower branches that were going out too low over the sidewalk.
I wonder, is their a difference between this Euphorbia ammak, and a variegated Euphorbia ingens ? My variegated ammak used to be a darker green plant. Jkw
Never seen a variegated E.ingens. Even in google images..I can see those they claim to be E.injens are really E.ammak. I've seen dwarf E.ingens and crested and even weeping- like those at Lotusland. Never variegated.
Geoff would know for sure or Paul..because if one exists it would be in a garden in the Canary Islands.
Euphorbia ingens has massively more limbs than E. ammak that is usually lightly branched by comparison. A huge E. ingens can even resemble the canopy of a big Dragon tree its so dense.
