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Re: [SG] Pulsatilla,Datura and Euphorbia

Well, Pottsey,

You want photos....here goes:-)

Ian's Photograph Collection of Alpine Flowers:
http://194.191.63.10/flowers/

has Pulsatilla alpina and Pulsatilla vernalis - this is a frames site, so
go to the URL and in the left column, scroll down until you find '
Ranunculaceae ', which is the family Pulsatilla belongs to; click on that
and then scroll down the resulting page of  photos that appears in the
right hand frame until you come to them.  You can see a larger photo by
clicking on the thumbnail.

The Southwestern School of Botanical Medicine has two Datura.  This URL is
for D.  metelioides (which I have grown from seed - nice plant, but did not
prove hardy for me).  Many members of this genus are weedy horrors like
Jimson Weed:

http://chili.rt66.com/hrbmoore/Images/New5-28/Datura_meteloides.jpg

and D.  wrightii (about which I know nothing) :

http://chili.rt66.com/hrbmoore/Images/D-G/Datura_wrightii.jpg

I have photos of two species of Euphorbia up in one of my articles.
Euphorbia amygdaloides purpurea and Euphorbia characias characias and its
subspecies wulfenii.  They are at the end of the article, so you'll have to
scroll down:  http://suite101.com/articles/article.cfm/10057

The Euphorbiaceae family is vast; some are incredibly weird plants and many
are marvelous garden plants if you're not in too cold a zone for them -
many are pretty hardy.  E. characias spp. are marginally hardy for me - I
lose them in severe winters and find them short lived, but prolific
seeders.  E. a. purpurea is supposedly not hardy for me but generally comes
through unscathed - not long lived; again seeds around - love this plant!!

Gardening.com's plant database has two other species of Euphorbia:  E.
myrsinites, which I also grow - bone hardy for me, but only really happy in
either my gravel drive or my sand bed - nice plant- low growing and early
blooming:

http://gardening.com/Encyclopedia/cgi-bin/KeywordLarge.idc?ID=697&Hitcount=2
&keyword=Euphorbia

and E. epithymoides, which I had once, but it passed on to the great
compost heap in the sky...dunno why..nice plant also:

http://gardening.com/Encyclopedia/cgi-bin/KeywordLarge.idc?ID=14469&Hitcount
=2&keyword=Euphorbia

If those two links don't work for you (sometimes search queries don't) go
to:

http://gardening.com/Encyclopedia

and put the word Euphorbia in the search blank and it will come up with
these links to these two guys.

This Italian (I think - slow loading) site has a photo of Euphorbia
robbiae:

http://www.mediasoft.it/fiori/fiori/12.htm

Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center has one of  Euphorbia marginata
(Snow on the Mountain):
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/literatr/wildflwr/species/euphmarg.htm

Horticopia.com has photos (unfortunately with their name across the pic.)
of E. griffithii 'Fireglow' (very nice plant - used to have it until I let
some more aggressive children swamp it):

http://160.79.195.106/plantlist/pl1604.htm

and a not too great photo of E. dulcis 'Chameleon',  which I've just
recently acquired so have no actual experience with:

http://160.79.195.106/plantlist/pl1603.htm

Arid Lands Greenhouses have several photos of some of the more strange and
marvelous looking species that aren't garden plants for most of us:
http://www.aridlands.com/photopg.htm

There are many other species and varieties of Euphorbia available for sale
in nurseries, but these should give you and idea of what the more usual
ones look like.    The foliage on most of the garden varieties is
relatively similar - varies in size and coloration, but the slender leaf
form  is common.  Euphorbia can be great plants if you can give them the
conditions they want and some can get pretty weedy and some can be fairly
floppy.  But try some...you, too, may become a Euphorbia nut :-)

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
Editor:  Gardening in Shade
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http://www.suite101.com/frontpage/frontpage.cfm?topicID=222
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> From: venies.place <venies.place@MCI2000.COM>
> To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
> Subject: Re: [SG] Pulsatilla,Datura and Euphorbia
> Date: Thursday, September 10, 1998 5:53 PM
>
> I would love to know what these plants look like but I can't find a
website
> that has a picture.  Can anyone help me with this?
>
> Pottsey
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