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Cactus zapatilla / Devil's backbone or Zigzag plant
Euphorbia tithymaloides
-2.89741, -79.0045
Field Notes
Description:
A very strange plant with a shoe-like flower and very irregular branches. It looks as if it were made of plastic. This is the first time it is flowering and I took this pictures which are the first ones of the plant's flower.
Habitat:
Dry forest.
Notes:
http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/gardens-gardening/your-garden/pl…
There is a very interesting paper about the use of this plant to make hidrocarbons (fuels simmilar to gasoline) : http://ejournal.sinica.edu.tw/bbas/content/1997/2/bot382-06.html
Species ID Suggestions
Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedJuly 1, 2013
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