Coffee scented euphorbia
Pam Moore
My daughter encountered it once and has made enquiries but can not
find it. I told her surely some URGer will know!
Thanks in advance!
Pam
Cheers
Pam Moore
PMoor...@aol.com
Pam....@Virgin.net
Bristol
COB
>Please does anyone know which euphorbia smells of coffee.
>My daughter encountered it once and has made enquiries but can not
>find it. I told her surely some URGer will know!
I've had a look in my A-Z, but it doesn't mention scent at all for
Euphorbias. I'm amazed at the variety of them, though, I had no idea
there were so many different kinds.
Particularly amazed that the Poinsettia is a Euphorbia - you really do
learn something new every day.
Sorry I've been no help to you, Pam.
--
Colette
Charlie Pridham
Pam Moore <pam....@virgin.net> wrote in message
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> Please does anyone know which euphorbia smells of coffee.
> My daughter encountered it once and has made enquiries but can not
> find it. I told her surely some URGer will know!
> Pam
> Cheers
> Pam Moore
Euphorbia mellifera is scented, how you would describe the scent I am not
sure! quite pleasent though.
--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
www.users.dialstart.net/~clematis
Kay Easton
<col...@nospam.demon.co.uk> writes
>
>I've had a look in my A-Z, but it doesn't mention scent at all for
>Euphorbias.
We have a large E mellifera on the terrace - for the last 2-3 months (so
it seems) the terrace has been bathed in honey scent - rather like
opening a jar of honey and sniffing hard.
> I'm amazed at the variety of them, though, I had no idea
>there were so many different kinds.
>
>Particularly amazed that the Poinsettia is a Euphorbia - you really do
>learn something new every day.
If you look at the flowers of the poinsettia - the tiny greeny yellow
bits, not the fancy red bracts surrounding - you'll see they have a lot
in common with things like caper spurge and the various euphorbias used
as garden ornamentals.
Even more surprising are the succulent ones, some of which are often
confused for cacti - eg as martin (I think it was) says - the four sided
'cactus' mentioned in another thread as having orange spots could quite
easily be a euphorbia. Then there's the 'crown of thorns' - spiny 'tree'
with red 'flowers' - and the 'gorgon's head' - lots of snake like fleshy
branches radiating from a central point.
Altogether an interesting and colourful family - and one of the
mainstays of my north facing clayey front garden.
--
Kay Easton
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http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/garden/
COB
writes
>Even more surprising are the succulent ones, some of which are often
>confused for cacti - eg as martin (I think it was) says - the four sided
>'cactus' mentioned in another thread as having orange spots could quite
>easily be a euphorbia. Then there's the 'crown of thorns' - spiny 'tree'
>with red 'flowers' - and the 'gorgon's head' - lots of snake like fleshy
>branches radiating from a central point.
And the strange E.obesa (living baseball) though I don't think that can
be grown outside here.
>
>Altogether an interesting and colourful family - and one of the
>mainstays of my north facing clayey front garden.
I'd only really seen the quite common ones (E.characias) mainly, though
I've probably seen quite a few that I didn't recognise as Euphorbia. I'm
now sufficiently inspired to research the more unusual ones, and see
what can go where in my garden.
--
Colette
>Kat<
COB <col...@nospam.demon.co.uk>wrote in message
>>My daughter encountered it once and has made enquiries but can not
>>find it. I told her surely some URGer will know!
>
>there were so many different kinds.
>
>Particularly amazed that the Poinsettia is a Euphorbia - you really do
>learn something new every day.
tiny red flowers if I remember correctly
--
>Kat<
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Kay Easton
<col...@nospam.demon.co.uk> writes
>
>I'd only really seen the quite common ones (E.characias) mainly, though
>I've probably seen quite a few that I didn't recognise as Euphorbia. I'm
>now sufficiently inspired to research the more unusual ones, and see
>what can go where in my garden.
E mellifera gets *big* - ours is like a 7ft football.
E characias comes in two varieties, var characias and var wulfenii - I
don't think there's a vast difference between them.
E griffithsii 'Fireglow' has green leaves and wonderful orange bracts
for several months in spring - very colourful. It grows about the same
size as E characias.
E myrsinites (that's spelt wrong!) is a semi prostrate one, but will
cover 3-4ft. It's grey, with almost scaly leaves rather like a anteater-
thingy - pangolin? - and has lime green bracts in spring. It looks good
cascading down a bank.
There are several which are varieties or closely related to sun spurge -
more delicate leaves, grow only to a couple of feet, and come in various
shades of red and purple.
E cyparissifolia is tiny, about 8in high, with soft fine leaves, like a
small lime green pine tree. It self seeds readily. It dies down
completely in winter.
E robbii is like our native wood spurge - leathery green leaves, not
very tall.
That's about all I've got!
Adam
there. They have a fantastic collection of Euphorbias, and if there is one
that smells of coffee, I'm sure you'll find it there.
Adam
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Michael Berridge
Kay Easton wrote in message <
>E cyparissifolia is tiny, about 8in high, with soft fine leaves, like a
>small lime green pine tree. It self seeds readily. It dies down
>completely in winter.
>
known the name, but it does well.
Mike
COB
>E griffithsii 'Fireglow' has green leaves and wonderful orange bracts
>for several months in spring - very colourful. It grows about the same
>size as E characias.
>
>E myrsinites (that's spelt wrong!) is a semi prostrate one, but will
>cover 3-4ft. It's grey, with almost scaly leaves rather like a anteater-
>thingy - pangolin? - and has lime green bracts in spring. It looks good
>cascading down a bank.
>
Thanks for all the descriptions, Kay. I particularly like the sound of
the above two.
Regards
Colette
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Colette O'Brien
Dorling Kindersley Advisor http://www.dk.com/uk (Ref. UK33527X)
Donna
their descriptions so I've included the whole thing):
E. wulfenii "Jimmy Platt":This is a superb variety with huge,
pinkish-stemmed - to use our supplier's description - crosiers (no, not a
unit of currency as suggested in our office but the staff carried by a
bishop) with attractive, narrow, grey-green leaves to signify the end of
winter. These are followed by wonderful heads of long-lasting flowers, the
whole yielding a plant guaranteed to produce gasps of delight even from
Euphorbia pundits. (One perhaps frustrating bonus is that the plant seems to
emit a coffee scent.)
Sounds like this might be it?
Pam Moore <pam....@virgin.net> wrote in message
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> Please does anyone know which euphorbia smells of coffee.
> My daughter encountered it once and has made enquiries but can not
> find it. I told her surely some URGer will know!
> Thanks in advance!
> Pam
> Cheers
> Pam Moore
> PMoor...@aol.com
> Pam....@Virgin.net
> Bristol
Kay Easton
ovefornospam.btinternet.com.?> writes
>I was browsing through the Chiltern Seeds catalogue and noticed this (I love
>their descriptions so I've included the whole thing):
>
>E. wulfenii "Jimmy Platt":This is a superb variety with huge,
>pinkish-stemmed - to use our supplier's description - crosiers (no, not a
>unit of currency as suggested in our office but the staff carried by a
>bishop) with attractive, narrow, grey-green leaves to signify the end of
>winter. These are followed by wonderful heads of long-lasting flowers, the
>whole yielding a plant guaranteed to produce gasps of delight even from
>Euphorbia pundits. (One perhaps frustrating bonus is that the plant seems to
>emit a coffee scent.)
>
>Sounds like this might be it?
'wulfenii' is one of the two sub species of E characias. So I went out
and buried my nose in our E. characias - not a strong smell - I'm not
sure - but I think it's coffee scented and I'm not just imagining it -
the smell of newly ground coffee rather than the smell of the made
drink.
