Identification: Unidentified euphorbia

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  1. fwersan

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    Can anyone identify the euphorbia in the attached photo. I haven't seen it in any of the photos on the web sites I have surveyed. It bleeds white, so I assume that it is a euphorbia. I saw something like it, though much larger, at the West Palm Beach botanic gardens several years ago, but it wasn't labeled.
     

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  2. MamaMac

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    Schlumbergera of some sort?
     
  3. Nandan Kalbag

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    Euphorbia grandicornis?
     
  4. fwersan

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    The photos I see on the web of grandicornis show it to have a an X or Y cross section (hard to tell). This plant does not have a cross section - it's just flat. Also it isn't segmented the way the schlumbergera are.

    It might be one of these, but I haven't found a photo online of a definitively identified plant that matches what mine looks like.
     
  5. Nandan Kalbag

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    Yes! fversan, you are right. The E. grandicornis has y type of growth. From your photo I could not judge the flatness of the plant. But it is certainly not Schlumbergera. Schlumbergera is a cactus & does not belong to Euphorbiaceae.
    Nandan
     

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