Euphorbia lactea (live succulent)

Euphorbia lactea (live succulent)

Family: Euphorbiaceae

Common names: Mottled candle stick tree, Milk striped euphorbia, Mottled candlestick, Milkstripe euphorbia, Frilled fan, Elkhorn, African milk plant, False cactus, Hat-rack-cactus, Candle-stick tree, Caper Spurge, Cactus Candelabre, Candelabra Cactus, Candelabra spurge, Dragon bones, Dragoon bones tree, Mottled spurge, Hatrack cactus.

It is a tall, dark-green, many-branched, cactus-like shrub or small tree hairless throughout. It has a distinctive silhouette and can grow 3-6 m tall (or more) but rarely does in cultivation. Euphorbia lactea is one of the most common succulent euphorbias in cultivation, but highly variable with several forms and hybrids making precise descriptions of it difficult.