Euphorbia horrida -White (live succulent)

Euphorbia horrida white (live succulent)

Family: Euphorbiaceae.

Common names: African Milk Barrel, African Milk Bush, Noors.

It is a spiny succulent shrub with irregular basally clumping stems. This clone has chalky white stems. In age it will forms tight clumps of upright columns up to a metre wide that closely resemble some cactus species. It also has clustered crowns of somewhat ferocious spines much like the true cacti.