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Tetracoccus hallii
Also called Chuckwalla Bushspurge, Hall's Spurge, Hall's Tetracoccus, Hall's Four Pod Spurge, Holly Leaved Spurge, Chuckawallabush
Hall's shrubby-spurge is a bushy, branching desert shrub with small leathery leaves and woolly fruit, native to the Mojave and Sonoran deserts. It is a wild desert species rather than a common garden plant, and it thrives in hot, dry, well-drained conditions.
Tetracoccus hallii is a species of flowering shrub in the family Picrodendraceae, known by the common names Hall's shrubby-spurge and Hall's tetracoccus.
The plant is native to the Mojave Desert and Sonoran Desert: in southeastern California, southern Nevada, and western Arizona in the U.S.; and Baja California state in Mexico.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tetracoccus hallii 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.
