EUPHORBIA GROENEWALDII

This member of the Euphorbiaceae family was given this name by Robert Allen Dyer in 1938. It is found in Mozambique and north-eastern South Africa, growing in a well drained soil with little to some water and some sun. The caudex can grow up to nine centimetres in diameter, and if it is raised, the plant can reach a height of 25 centimetres.

The genera name; Euphorbia dates back to the first century BC, where King Juba II of Mauritania used it in a reference to his doctor, Euphorbos, and that name was kept as a generic name by Carl von Linnaeus. The species name after B. H. Groenewald, a South African amateur specialist on Aloe. The small flowers by Indra Susandi.