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Sep 19, 2016 6:01 PM CST
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Name: Baja
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Euphorbia hybrid with exploded fruit and seed

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Sep 19, 2016 6:10 PM CST
Name: Karen
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Super banner, Baja!
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Sep 19, 2016 7:13 PM CST
Name: Ann ~Heat zn 9, Sunset
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Wow, just wow!
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Sep 19, 2016 7:14 PM CST
Name: Jean
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Lovely banner, Baja Hurray!
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Sep 19, 2016 7:48 PM CST
Name: Arlene
Southold, Long Island, NY (Zone 7a)
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Exquisite! Great job, Baja!
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Sep 19, 2016 9:01 PM CST
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That is a "Knockout" of a banner! πŸ† πŸ† πŸ† πŸ† πŸ† Love It!
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Sep 20, 2016 7:58 AM CST
Name: Rj
Just S of the twin cities of M (Zone 4b)
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Great banner!
As Yogi Berra said, β€œIt's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”
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Sep 20, 2016 10:21 AM CST
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Name: Baja
Baja California (Zone 11b)
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Thank you for the kind words. Here is the whole plant (June 28), and another picture taken today (3 months later) to show how it is moving along.

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Here are some siblings to show the variation among these seedlings (at least two different fathers that I can tell)... the fat one is growing sideways because a squirrel took a huge bite of it when it was young. (And spat it out afterwards because Euphorbias taste terrible... lesson learned! Smiling )

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Sep 20, 2016 11:08 AM CST
Name: Karen
New Mexico (Zone 8a)
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Those make such beautiful plants!
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Sep 20, 2016 11:36 AM CST
Name: Vickie
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flaflwrgrl said:Wow, just wow!



What Ann said!! Awesome I tip my hat to you.
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Sep 20, 2016 12:48 PM CST
Name: Marilyn
Greenwood Village, CO (Zone 5b)
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This is one of the most captivating banners I have seen in a long time. My eye continues to go to it again and again and again. Thank you for posting it. Hurray! Hurray!

Also have never seen this plant will have to look around for it.
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Sep 20, 2016 1:21 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Baja
Baja California (Zone 11b)
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If you do go looking, you will find similar Euphorbias under these names

E. polygona
E. anoplia
E. horrida

But the story behind the banner is a little more complicated than that. The ones in the pictures are hybrids, which you aren't likely to find in stores. Green Grin! These plants are dioecious (separate male and female individuals, like humans) so they can't self-pollinate... those three Euphorbias were growing side by side around the time I collected the original seed.

It's much more interesting to grow these plants from seed than from cuttings, because you know the offspring will be different from the mother plant, guaranteed. Thumbs up Here she is doing her girly thing after our first fall shower.

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