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Euphorbia amplexicaulis
Euphorbia amplexicaulis (now often placed as Chamaesyce amplexicaulis) is a spurge from the Galápagos that grows in seasonally dry areas. It is a little-known species, so care advice is largely inferred from related dry-climate euphorbias.
Euphorbia amplexicaulis is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae and is endemic to the Galápagos, where it mainly grows in seasonally dry areas. It was first formally described in 1847 by Joseph Dalton Hooker in the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Euphorbia amplexicaulis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
