Pedilanthus Bracteatus Euphorbiaceae - Slipper Plant

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Pedilanthus Bracteatus Euphorbiaceae - Slipper Plant

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Sharon Mau

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Pedilanthus bracteatus (Slipper plant) Growing to around 6 feet tall (to 9 feet in habitat), this upright succulent branches from the base and has narrow cylindrical green stems with ovate leaves, with a thick prominent mid-vein on the lower surface, that are just near the branch tips. All vegetative parts of the plant are often sparsely hairy. In the warmth of late spring and summer through fall appear the curiously shaped red cyathia (flower structures containing separate male and female parts) that are enclosed in rounded reddish pink bracts near the branch tips.

The curious flowers on several Pedilanthus species are somewhat shoe shaped and gives this genus the common name Slipper Plant. Other common names include Slipper Spurge and Candelilla (more commonly associated with Euphorbia antisyphilitica and Pedilanthus macrocarpus), for the hard brown wax from this species. The Pedilanthus have been reclassified many times and the current treatment is to include them with the genus Euphorbia, making this plant's valid name Euphorbia bracteata

The name Pedilanthus comes from the Greek words 'pedil' meaning shoe and 'anthos' meaning 'flower" in reference to the shoe shaped flower structures that some members of the genus have and the specific epithet for this species means bearing bracts in reference its prominent bracts.

In the warmth of late spring and summer appear the curiously shaped red cyathia (flower structures containing separate male and female parts) are enclosed in rounded reddish pink bracts near the branch tips. Pollination in the genus Pedilanthus is commonly effected by hummingbirds . .
We don't have Hummingbirds here on Maui and so I wonder how they are pollinated .


Pedilanthus bracteatus
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