Reader Photos25 Feb 2010 07:19 am
A photo from Charlotte of her crested Euphorbia lactea that has lost leaves.
I see it still has 2 additional leaves. Yay! And updating the post below, she has drilled a hole in the bottom of the pot so that the plant is no longer sitting in soggy soil. Also a Yay!
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February 26th, 2010 at 7:56 am
I am so happy that you posted this. I just picked up one of these beauties…but it did not have a tag…(nor have I looked for info). Can you say, synchronicity? Can I safely say that Euphorbia lactea is a grafted plant..or does it really grow that way? Matti
February 26th, 2010 at 9:17 am
E. lactea is a columnar species that is mostly or completely green or sometimes white, and naturally grows into a tree. These crested varieties come in green and ghost (white). The green crests can be rooted without a graft, but the ghosts, like this one, lack sufficient chlorophyll and must be grafted to a rootstock.
August 14th, 2012 at 1:33 pm
I just recently bought one of these (the green variety though, i didnt see any ghost ones) and it was also grafted onto what appears to be the same rootstock as yours but the leaves and spines were cut off. Anybody know what the rootstock is? Is it a pereskiopsis? If it is, then I’m going to tissue culture the rootstock and use the pereskiopsis clones as rootstocks for my Trichocereus peruvianus seedlings